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Re: Compile-only build option?
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Re: Compile-only build option?


  • Subject: Re: Compile-only build option?
  • From: Michael Crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:13:34 -0800

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Alan Shouls <email@hidden> wrote:
> On a previous project I suffered some pretty grim link times, upgrading my
> machine, 2.4Gz macbook to 4G of ram made a huge difference. As I remember
> cutting the link time to less than a half.

Could this have been because of the very large size of the debugger
symbols in recent GCC versions?

If the executable were all held in ram at one time, first in pieces
and then as a single assembly, having large amounts of data involved
in the link could cause a lot of swapping.

Mike
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 >Re: Compile-only build option? (From: Alan Shouls <email@hidden>)

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