On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 4:22 PM Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > This is a rather technical post about how libraries of compiled code can > be further optimized. LTO generally produces smaller[*] and faster code > (typically by a few percent) at the expense of increased installation > time and is being used for large projects such as browsers and soon for > some Linux distributions. > > I have committed a series of enhancements to LTO support in R-devel and > will shortly port the more important of these to R-patched.
Would it be worthwhile looking into this for Windows? We did enable support for LTO in the rtools40 toolchains*, but those are gcc-8.3.0 and some of the benefits require gcc-9. * https://github.com/r-windows/rtools-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-gcc/PKGBUILD#L166 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
