How would *you* use an intern?

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:29:46AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > 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).

I don't think you can load objects/resolve symbols in parallel, at
least not with ELF.


H.J.