On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:30 AM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * Romain Geissler: > > > That may fly in the open source world, however I expect some vendors > > shipping proprietary code might be fine with assembly/LTO > > representation of their product, but not source. > > They can't ship LTO today anyway due to the format incompatibility, so > that's not really an argument against source-based LTO.
Source-based LTO doesn't really work unless you can re-synthesize source from the IL. At least I don't see how you can do whole-program analysis on source and then cut it into appropriate pieces, duplicating some things and some not to make up for the parallel final compile step. Richard. > Thanks, > Florian
