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Re: How would *you* use an intern?
- To: zackw at stanford dot edu
- Subject: Re: How would *you* use an intern?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 03:31:14 -0400
- CC: shebs at apple dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010531002012.Q1488@stanford.edu>
> > I'd like to see the linker become multi-threaded, but that's a topic
> > for the binutils list.
>
> May I ask what good this would do?
On a dual-cpu machine (which are becoming more popular each year), you
could use both processors to speed up the linking.