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Re: Linking speed with large amount of debugging info (IO speed)
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:35:47PM -0700, Andrew_Pinski@PlayStation.Sony.Com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been looking at linking speeds and where there are a large amount
> of debugging info present in a many different files, I have noticed that
> linking time is slow. I investigated a little further and noticed that
> almost all of the time is spent doing IO calls. I have been told by some
> of my colleges that they have a non GPL linker (which is compatiable with
> elf linking) and does not suffer this slow down. Does anyone know what
> could be causing this slow down? Could a non standard linker script
> causing this huge slow down or is there something I am just missing?
>
> The difference between linking with debugging and without is 3 minutes vs
> 30 seconds which seems a bit high.
>
Can you try binutils in CVS? We have fixed a few problems which
are similar to what you have.
H.J.