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

[Michal Nowak]

----- "Michal Nowak" <mnowak at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- "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?
> 
> ...
> 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.

ld:     CVS snapshot from date: 20100309
Package:   qt-4.5.3-7.fc12
Time:      2:05:21
Size:      258M
Status:    PASS

ld:	binutils-2.19.51.0.14-37.fc12 (likely, just a guess)
Package:   qt-4.5.3-7.fc12
Time:      2:03:13
Size:      255M
Status:    PASS

Perhaps wrong example...

Michal