Walter Bright <boost <at> 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! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html