[llvm-dev] win32 lld Linker speed

[Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev]

This use case is probably dominated by code generation time, so all the
expensive work is in LLVM, not LLD. When you link bitcode, the linker does
all the codegen work (isel & regalloc), and it is not naturally
parallelized by traditional build systems. Speeding up LLVM codegen is a
long term hard problem.

In theory, LLD uses ThinLTO by default, so code generation should be
parallelized to the number of cores you have on your system.

You can also investigate using the LTO cache to make links more
incremental, so that when you change a single object file, the object files
code generated for previous builds are cached.

Generally speaking, though, if you want fast links, I'd recommend against
linking with bitcode. The entire LTO pipeline is set up for optimization,
not incremental link performance.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:06 AM Carlo Kok via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> I've got a customer project that emits a 18 MB .exe and 9 MB .exe.pdb; It
> takes about 6 minutes to link on their system, 2 minutes to link on mine
> (this a regullar lld -flavor link  /opt:lldlto=0). the input is about 61mb
> of bitcode files (originally about 2100 object files) with debug info (both
> pdb and dwarf get emitted) stored in 5 .lib files, compiled with -O0 but
> with thin-lto (without thin-lto it wasn't faster).
>
> Is this something to be expected?
>
> Can I do something to improve the speed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carlo Kok
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