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OptimizationOptimizationPosted Mar 26, 2008 19:16 UTC (Wed) by paragw (subscriber, #45306)Parent article: Striking gold in binutils
What about optimizations - will the new linker be capable of doing all the optimizations that GNU LD does?
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Optimization Posted Mar 27, 2008 0:14 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Which optimizations do you have in mind? It already handles the basic ones, like COMDAT.
Optimization Posted Mar 27, 2008 1:05 UTC (Thu) by paragw (subscriber, #45306) [Link] I wasn't sure about what optimizations GNU LD does - only that there was a documented -O switch to tell it to optimize which warns that it takes a lot of time to optimize. So I assumed it must be doing significant optimizations. Got to check out on the possible linker optimizations - interesting exercise. (Someone from Sun claimed gld does not do half the optimizations that the Sun Linker does - may be specific to SPARC.)
Optimization Posted Mar 27, 2008 17:18 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] GNU ld's -O switch only affects shared library generation; the optimization is described in this LWN article. I don't know whether gold does anything similar.
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