On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 September 2017 at 12:11, Marek Olšák <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Marek Olšák <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On 4 September 2017 at 21:36, Marek Olšák <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.ol...@amd.com> >>>>> >>>>> Building gallium is faster by 7.5 seconds on a 4core/8thread 3GHz CPU. >>>>> (gallium build time is reduced by 15% when building only radeonsi) >>>>> >>>> Some of this can be attributed to a couple libraries less to link. >>>> Speaking of which, did you switch to the gold linker, it should >>>> utilise the multiple cores/threads nicely. >>> >>> Sadly no. >> >> How do I switch to the gold linker? >> > There's multiple ways: > - manually (or via binutils-config –linker ld.gold) set the default > /usr/bin/ld > By default Arch has _hardlink_ to ld.bfd > - export LD=ld.gold // haven't tried it > - Add -fuse-ld=gold to the LDFLAGS (you may need a libtool patch [1]) > > HTH > Emil > > [1] > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=f9970d99293faf908fdc153a653fa5781095fb7a
Thanks. I used LDFLAGS and it does improve build times, but the linking still seems mostly single-threaded. Marek _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
