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On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:39:37 -0700 |
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Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is it as simple as switching the linker and re-merging packages that |
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> one maintains? Is gold supposed to be a big deal? Does it do the job |
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> of linking better? I read the blog post and all but nobody's |
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> explaining what gold does better than standard ld. |
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I think gold is faster and doesnt eat 8+gb of ram when linking chromium |
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with debug symbols :) |
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> That said, if it's that simple and then just requires some DEPEND |
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> updating, doesn't sound all that bad to me. |
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Nah, it's adding proper -lfoo when foo is used; more like asneeded |
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fixes. |
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