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

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 07:51:57AM CEST:
>> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>>> This is a list off shell functions that appear in the generated libtool
>>> script on my linux system (one of Ralf's patches is applied). Yes, we
>>> could probably move these around some to get func_mode_compile closer to
>>> the top.
>> The important thing is not how close func_mode_compile() is to the top, 
>> but how close the code which invokes it is to the top.
> 
> Most of these optimizations are already done in 2.2.2.  The code
> invoking func_mode_compile is right after its definition.
> 
> Wrt. moving functions, func_win32_libid, func_generate_dlsyms, and
> func_extract_an_archive, func_extract_archives can still be moved
> after func_mode_compile.  That gets another 10% overhead reduction.
> My patches from last night get about the same amount.

func_mode_help can also be easily moved, I am testing a patch currently
that moves all of these functions to after mode_compile.

Peter
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