Announcing `gold-rebuild' - link your packages with gold now

[Michal Nowak]

----- "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:24:29AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > Michal Nowak <mnowak at redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Past months I spent investigating `gold' - the new GNU linker
> > > and how it now works with stock Fedora packages.
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Do your scripts provide some evidence of exciting speedups with
> gold?
> 
> Or slowdowns?

I mostly tested building of Base group packages and they are quite
small and usually written in C so potential gold's advantages did 
not emerged at least for me yet. However now I am rebuilding Qt -
I believe this one will be far more telling since it's big (250 MB
in resulted RPMs), in C++ and my stock F-12 machine needed 2h to
finish the task when built with F-12 binutils.

Feel free to vimdiff attachment #1 (F-12 binutils) and #2 (a week
old binutils snapshot). I don't see "exciting speedups" nor 
"slowdowns" on those humble system packages from @Base.

> 	Jakub

Michal

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