From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Jendrissek Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:23:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <46DDC500.5000606@etek.chalmers.se> <1189004090.20311.12.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com> <4AFD7EAD1AAC4E54A416BA3F6E6A9E52@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> <46E11CE1.4030209@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 17 18:35:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MoJwv-0000a2-Nu for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:35:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758531AbZIQQfD (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:35:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754305AbZIQQfD (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:35:03 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37610 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753420AbZIQQfB (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:35:01 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MoJwm-0000XY-B3 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:35:04 +0200 Received: from 196.7.137.175 ([196.7.137.175]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:35:04 +0200 Received: from bernd.jendrissek by 196.7.137.175 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:35:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 196.7.137.175 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080316 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.13) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Walter Bright digitalmars.com> writes: > Sure, but I suggest that few projects reach this maxima. Case in point: > ld, the gnu linker. It's terribly slow. To see how slow it is, compare > it to optlink (the 15 years old one that comes with D for Windows). So I > don't believe there is anything inherent about linking that should make > ld so slow. There's some huge leverage possible in speeding up ld > (spreading out that saved time among all the gnu developers). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker) Note that gold is written in C++; the wikipedia quasi-stub article doesn't make this clear. Normally that wouldn't be relevant, but in this branch of the thread it is. Its C++-ness seems to be making an argument, but I don't know on which side!