Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> writes: > Walter Bright wrote: > >> 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). >> >> So while git may have reached a maxima in performance, I don't think >> this principle is applicable in general, even for very widely used >> open source projects that would profit greatly from improved >> performance. >> > > Interesting. I recently did a spot of work comparing various > string-hashing algorithms. Perhaps I should head over to the ld camp > and see if I can help. Well, my good wishes go with you! If ld.so would be affected as well, you'd probably not help just developers. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
