Joe Buck writes: > 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.
Yes, but please bear in mind that this *only* happens when you have a machine with huge RAM. For other people with small RAM, the link itself is an important factor. Also, other people have found that the libtool script consumes a smaller part of total execution time: rth's measurements are at one extreme of the scale. Andrew.
