Ben Gamari
Hi Tamar,
I have recently been looking quite a bit at our continuous integration due to the transition to GitLab and have found that the Windows builder is almost always the rate-limiting step. Builds routinely take three hours or more, with much of the time being spent in the bfd linker.
I am working to add more builders but ultimately there is only so much that we can do with the resources we have, especially given that Windows VM instances are essentially twice the cost of their Linux counterparts due to Windows licensing fees.
I know in the past you have thought about ld performance on Windows. Has there been any development on this front? Is there anything obvious we can do to improve the situation?
I have done a bit of investigation and it looks like GCC 9 will ship with `-fuse-ld=lld` support. Phyx, I seem to recall that you have tried LLD on Windows in the past. Do you recall how that went? Anyways, I have opened a GHC ticket to track this issue (#16084). Cheers, - Ben