Re: Announcing Dolt, a drop-in Libtool replacement which cuts build times in half
Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]>
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| Organization | Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn |
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Hello Josh, can we limit followups to a subset of this impressive array of mailing lists? Say, to <[email protected]>? That would be readable at <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/126905>. Thanks. * Josh Triplett wrote on Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:34:18PM CEST: > Libtool knows how to handle libraries for umpteen different systems, > including many ancient systems that have terrible shared library > support. It has some extensive shell script logic to figure out how > to build libraries for your system, and how to compile objects that go > in those libraries. This logic does an amazingly impressive job of > coping with adverse conditions. However, this logic all lives in an > ~8500 line, ~250kB shell script, which runs *every single time you > compile a source file*. > > This does not do wonders for performance. Curious: can you please state which Libtool version you timed against, and if not 2.2.x, redo timing against 2.2.2? Not that I expect wonders, but I expect something better than what you measured. Thanks, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool