How would *you* use an intern?

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> 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?

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?

Gerald
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