Opened 9 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#2557 closed enhancement (fixed)

Try using gold instead of ld for linking

Reported by: jng Owned by: jng
Priority: low Milestone: 4.0
Component: Build System Version:
Severity: trivial Keywords:
Cc: External ID:

Description

gold is reportedly significantly faster than the standard ld utility for linking libraries.

We should try using gold in our linux builds to improve build times .

Change History (4)

comment:1 by jng, 6 years ago

Milestone: 3.1 → 3.1.1

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

comment:2 by jng, 6 years ago

Milestone: 3.1.1 → 3.3

comment:3 by jng, 6 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

In 9320:

Add gold linker support for CMake build if available. Fixes #2557

comment:4 by jng, 5 years ago

Milestone: 3.3 → 4.0

Milestone renamed

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