Re: Link Time Optimization

[Vincent Torri]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, David wrote:

> On Martes 24 Agosto 2010 21:32:13 Ralf Wildenhues escribió:
> > * Vincent Torri wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:23:26PM CEST:
> > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > * Vincent Torri wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:25:12PM CEST:
> > > > > > I Cc:ed you on the thread, was that wrong?  How can we reach you?
> > > >
> > > > Please answer this.  Without somebody to ask about WinCE we *can* *not*
> > > > support it.
> > >
> > > sorry, i don't really understand (my english is so ugly...). What do
> > > oyu want, exactly ? a mail ?
> >
> > English:
> >
> > In order to be able to support Libtool on WinCE, we need somebody to be
> > able to test it regularly, for example before releases; also, we need to
> > be able to ask questions about it now and then.  Are you able to do this
> > for us?  I can try to ask questions in French, but it's not practical to
> > wait months for answers.  Thank you.
> >
> > French:
> >
> > Pour être en mesure de soutenir Libtool sur WinCE, nous avons besoin de
> > quelqu'un pour être de pouvoir le tester régulièrement, par exemple,
> > avant de presse; aussi, nous devons être en mesure de poser des
> > questions à ce sujet ici et là. Êtes-vous capable de le faire pour nous?
> > Je peux essayer de poser des questions en français, mais ce n'est pas
> > pratique pour attendre des mois pour obtenir des réponses. Merci.
> > (Cela a été traduit translate.google.com)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ralf
> Instead of relying in only one person and possibly waiting for his response,
> how about to start supporting it in all other arches and disabling it on
> untested arches like WinCE? For example in compile time, or so on.
> That's just an idea, but I feel like lto is something that is sufficient
> important to be tested as soon as possible, and, imho, gives as a new
> interesting level of optimization.

Things can also be automated a bit. Cross compilation can be done with 
buildbot on a server, for example. That can speed up things.

Vincent Torri