Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

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> Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Case in point: ld, the gnu linker. It's terribly slow. To see how
>> slow it is, compare it to optlink (the 15 years old one that comes
>> with D for Windows). So I don't believe there is anything inherent
>> about linking that should make ld so slow. There's some huge
>> leverage possible in speeding up ld (spreading out that saved time
>> among all the gnu developers).
>>
>> So while git may have reached a maxima in performance, I don't think
>> this principle is applicable in general, even for very widely used
>> open source projects that would profit greatly from improved
>> performance.
>>
>
> Interesting. I recently did a spot of work comparing various
> string-hashing algorithms. Perhaps I should head over to the ld camp
> and see if I can help.

Well, my good wishes go with you!  If ld.so would be affected as well,
you'd probably not help just developers.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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