On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:06:14AM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Part of the problem here is the use of a convenienve library to hold several > thousand object files and then making a shared library with the convenience > library. On many platforms, those without a --whole-archive flag, libtool > will extract the convenience archive all over again. Linking the shared > library all in one go would be faster.
Frankly, this is only a very small part of the problem. MOST of the time is wasted in the thousands of libtool invokations that preceed the final link. r~
