Re: Announcing Dolt, a drop-in Libtool replacement which cuts build times in half

[Peter O'Gorman]

Josh Triplett wrote:

> I tested against 1.5.26.  I'll give 2.2.2 a shot and see what I find.
> However, when I looked at 2.2.2, it still seems to have a
> multi-thousand-line shell script; do you just expect the benefit to
> come from the new shell-specific optimizations?
>

Hi Josh,

There are speedups for link mode, I don't think you will see much of an
improvement for compile mode over 1.5.26, but I do not have numbers to
back that up.

Splitting off libtool compile might be worthwhile, but there should be
no need for:

AC_MSG_CHECKING([if libtool sucks])
AC_MSG_RESULT([yup, it does])

:-)

Or to restrict the shell, compiler and OS to bash, gcc and GNU/linux. It
should be possible to have a portable (at least a more portable than
this) ltcompile script.

Are you willing to work on libtool to improve its performance for
compile mode? If so, we can send you copyright assignment forms etc.

Peter
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