How would *you* use an intern?

[DJ Delorie]

> 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?

Yeah.  The linking process is highly parallelizable.  Loading objects
is, resolving symbols is, laying them out in memory isn't, relocating
is, writing out the executable isn't (well, might be).