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Re: Link-time optimzation
On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
Also, please keep in mind that generating and then assembling debug
info takes a huge amount of I/O relative to code size. I'd expect
much
more than 1% saving the write-out and write-in on -g.
I'd hope that we can contribute code to eliminate this, so, it might
be possible to not consider any benefit this would have in the
current decision making.
compiler -> debug info repository -> gdb (side stepping the linker,
the assembler)