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Re: collect2 always built?
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com, khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu
- Subject: Re: collect2 always built?
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:37:06 -0800
> To: egcs@cygnus.com
> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 13:53:35 -0600
> From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu>
> Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
> I ran into a situation where this was certainly useful: In a
> particular project that uses lots of templates, the size of the
> build dir tree went up to about 220M, whereas using -frepo and
> library closure, it's around 130M. That's a big difference; however,
> given a choice between the two, I'd take the smart linker approach
> any day.
Very useful data point, thanks. I was wondering if you had build
times for a second build for repo and non-repo. I might guess 70%
faster, but would be nice to get a confirmation of this guess for a
real project.