Striking gold in binutils

> Will this really be a big win for most of us? I hope not. Things that
> take significant time to link tend to be big messes.

Hmm, if you have applications which link to a big number of libraries 
with many symbols (e.g. KDE) linking does take quite long, so improving 
this may be really nice.
I'll give it a try.

> Now automake and libtool -- that's slow for all of us..

Just use cmake, it does it all and also gets rid of libtool :-)

Alex