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Re: Avoid -Wl,--whole-archive


From: Thomas Jahns
Subject: Re: Avoid -Wl,--whole-archive
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 16:30:39 +0200
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On 5/16/19 5:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Convenience libraries are evil.  Convenience libraries slow down your build process dramatically and they cause 'make' not to be aware of the actual underlying dependencies, so that it does much more work than is required each type you invoke 'make'.  If you can enumerate the actual dependencies in the Makefile and avoid needless intermediate product generation, then you will achive a maximally parallel build which builds much faster on modern systems.

Except when they don't actually slow you down: ar and ranlib provide for a lookup table that in my experience is beneficial to build times, especially when you have a network filesystem, where access to individual file system objects can be more expensive.

Regards, Thomas



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