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Re: How would *you* use an intern?
- To: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at
- Subject: Re: How would *you* use an intern?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 03:29:46 -0400
- CC: zackw at stanford dot edu, shebs at apple dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105310922120.74745-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
> Linking files residing on an NFS-Server often gives me a load of < 5%
> with a most significant amount of iowait, even on a fast network.
>
> I assume this could be improved by de-serializing the link process?
Yeah. The linking process is highly parallelizable. Loading objects
is, resolving symbols is, laying them out in memory isn't, relocating
is, writing out the executable isn't (well, might be).