Parallel, Incremental Linking
The bottleneck for building on my multi-core machine is ld, which spends a considerable time consuming 100% of one core after ghc has finished generating object files. Moreover, GHC is largely IO bound, while ld is CPU bound; incremental linking would enable the two tasks to be performed in parallel (or am I being naive?) Gold in an incremental and multi-threaded linker, but can only output ELF (not Windows). Is there a cross-platform solution suitable for GHC?
On 7 December 2010 08:54, John Smith
Gold in an incremental and multi-threaded linker, but can only output ELF (not Windows). Is there a cross-platform solution suitable for GHC?
Not AFAIK. One thing that would probably help a lot is if GHC-generated code stopped causing the linker to link so much stuff in: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4417 Cheers, Max
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John,
Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 11:54:22 AM, you wrote:
The bottleneck for building on my multi-core machine is ld, which
afaik, there was some alternative linker, at least for linux systems
gold, developed by Google.
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