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RE: Link performance: some numbers and a hack


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: RE: Link performance: some numbers and a hack
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:04:09 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Iñaki García Etxebarria wrote:

> > The information in the dynamic libs may be incorrect, or it may not
> > actually exist.
> Uff. Does this really happen out there?
>
> > It would be good to see why linking is so slow when all the libraries
> > are listed.  Is the same library listed multiple times due to
> > dependency concatenation?
> It's libtool which is slow, the actual linking is pretty fast once gcc
> is started. Say, libtool takes around 2 minutes and gcc 2 seconds.

That is pretty atrocious.  It would be good to understand where the
slowness is actually coming from.

> It's around 17 here, but there's no particular order. Not really
> something I can fix easily, they are in the order pkg-config writes
> them. It doesn't seem particularly bad, anyway:
> ../src/file-manager/libnautilus-file-manager.la
> ../libnautilus/libnautilus.la
> ../libnautilus-adapter/libnautilus-adapter.la
> ../libnautilus-private/libnautilus-private.la
> ../cut-n-paste-code/gsequence/libgsequence.la -Wl,--export-dynamic
> -pthread -L/home/garetxe/garnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -leel-2 -lgailutil
> -lglade-2.0 -lrsvg-2 -lgsf-1 -lesd -laudiofile -lgnome-desktop-2
> -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lxml2 -lz -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2
> -lpopt -lart_lgpl_2 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0
> -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lbonobo-2
> -lgconf-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lgobject-2.0
> -lgthread-2.0 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
> -lstartup-notification-1   -lcdda_paranoia -lcdda_interface -ljpeg
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11  -lpopt

This link line is what is passed to libtool.  What is of interest is
the link line which is being passed to gcc (or the system linker) by
libtool.  Can you provide us with that?

Bob
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