[llvm-dev] [RFC] - Deduplication of debug information in linkers (LLD).

[George Rimar via llvm-dev]

>Wasn't our (lld/ELF's) position on debug info size that we should focus on providing a great split-dwarf workflow and not try go too far out of our way to deduplicate >or otherwise reduce debug info size inside LLD? I recall there being some patches that made linking of large debug binaries like 1.5GB+ clang faster, but we decided to >reject those changes because split-dwarf was the "right" solution.

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>Rafael, Rui?
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>(I even recall Rafael saying at one point that a great split-dwarf workflow was one of the key things he considered as necessary for him to consider LLD "done")
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>-- Sean Silva

I probably not the right person to suggest (still mostly learning here for now, so would like to be on a fence in general),
but it looks for me that splitting DWARF and deduplicating DWARF is a bit othogonal things.
It feels for me that there is a room to do both things and have a benefit from combinatiion ?

George.
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