On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:57:10PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > At this point, it doesn't feel like switching to 1.5.16 is worth the > effort. 2.0 should be far more maintainable, and hopefully > significantly more efficient on hosts where the use of shell functions > optimized for properties of the build machine and/or the host > machine can bring us such improvement.
> Thoughts? Richard Henderson showed that the libjava build spends 2/3 of its time in libtool, and that his hand-hacked (but not portable) modification to invoke the appropriate binutils commands directly gave a huge speedup. To me, 300% overhead means major breakage, so we need a better libtool. However, this better libtool might not yet exist.
