Jonas Maebe wrote:
The ld manual page lists some options you can use to reduce its memory usage: * --no-keep-memory (makes it re-read object symbol tables from time to time instead of keeping them in memory all the time) * --reduce-memory-overheads (small hash tables and slower but less memory-intensive link map generation algorithm)
I scripted some builds over the afternoon with all combinations of those, running on a Linux SPARC system with 192Mb which I was hoping would be tight enough to be a good test. Unfortunately the timings on all four were very similar: --no-keep-memory (without --reduce-memory-overheads) gave about a minute's advantage out of about 18 minutes link time.
I was hoping that --stats output might show something useful, but I think it gets swallowed. Vincent's suggestion of -t shows some useful info during the first part of the link, but in the sort of extreme case that I've currently got with Solaris I don't know at what point that would peter out.
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