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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 02:40, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
>
> Paul> Maybe. Then again, maybe there are real problems here. The ranlib
> Paul> one was already mentioned. And I wonder if libjava really needs to
> Paul> bring the host to its knees, as it does.
>
> Killing machines is only a secondary goal, if that's what you mean ;-)
>
> The bad news is that libjava is only going to grow.
>
> On the other hand, while I haven't measured it myself, I've heard that
> a lot of the time in the libjava build is spent in libtool (versus
> plain old ld). Perhaps that can be alleviated somehow.
>
Splitting libjava into multiple libraries would be a good start.
It would probably be a good thing for application start-up time to when
using shared libs.
R.