gold for linking (original) (raw)

Ioi Lam ioi.lam at oracle.com
Sun Mar 26 10:30:55 UTC 2017


I just tried adding -fuse-ld=gold to the g++ linker flags, and my libjvm.so link time shrinks from 18 seconds to 6 seconds. And that's with single threaded linking. If I add "-Wl,--threads -Wl,--thread-count,8" it becomes 4 seconds. It doesn't seem to scale after 8 threads.

Any plans for adding official (perhaps optional) support for gold in the JDK build system?

Thanks



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