Re: Link-Time Optimisation

2012-03-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Aron Xu dixit: >You might be interested in reading this thread: >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/06/msg00149.html Ok, will have a look, thanks. >Activating LTO by default seems not to be a reasonable idea (reasons Right, it is not. >are in the given thread), but if maintainer of a pa

Re: Link-Time Optimisation

2012-03-02 Thread Aron Xu
Hi Thorsten, You might be interested in reading this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/06/msg00149.html Activating LTO by default seems not to be a reasonable idea (reasons are in the given thread), but if maintainer of a package see it's appropriate then he can use it in the pack

Link-Time Optimisation

2012-03-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi all, has anyone ever wondered about adoption of LTO in Debian? I’ve been using -fwhole-program --combine since GCC supported it somewhat reliably (with a fallback as they have broken it regularily at least three times) in mksh, and now several of my packages try -flto=jobserver with a fallback