Discussion about merging Go frontend

[Mark Mitchell]

On 10/26/2010 10:41 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> Well, slow on hosts where process creation is slow (just like the separate 
> gcc/cc1/as/collect2/ld/lto-wrapper/... processes).  The separate process 
> design was probably based on process creation being fast

A lot of this is also historical; gcc/cc1/as/ld mirror typical UNIX
compilers of the era at which GCC was built.  collect2 was presumably
necessary because of dependence on proprietary ld; if we could assume
GNU ld (or GOLD) everywhere, we could fold that functionality directly
into the linker.

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