collect2 always built?

[Mike Stump]

> From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
> To: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 12:10:50 PST
> Cc: jason@cygnus.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, egcs@cygnus.com

> > > If someone has ELF and the latest GNU ld, is there ever a situation where
> > > they would want to use -frepo?
> > 
> > I think so.  Speed.  I predict that there are cases where using -frepo
> > will yield smaller .o files, and will take less time to generate them
> > and less time to link them.

> I would be amazed.  My experience with -frepo is that it is dog-slow, and
> with 2.7.2 I saw as many as ten link-recompile passes on relatively small
> programs that used STL.

Any what is the speed of the second recompile?  How does this compare
to the non-repo compile?  I know the first one will be slow with repo.

If you don't have any numbers, then maybe someone with a larger C++ pt
heavy code base would be willing to try...