[llvm-dev] Why do we static link all llvm libraries in every executable?

[Yury Gribov via llvm-dev]

On 01/25/2016 09:16 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:13:35AM -0800, Yin Ma via llvm-dev wrote:
>> If we separate several shared libraries something like
>> libclang.so, libllvm.so and let all executables and llvmgold.so just
>> linked with .so. A lot of space could be saved and
>> loading performance could be improved.
>
> There is a build option to do exactly that. It comes at a significant
> price for startup, e.g. clang will take 10x as long for building a small
> example.

Is this to process runtime relocations or run constructors? I wonder if 
Prelink or ElfHack could help.

> Joerg
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