Re: Linker ... still useful ?

gnb@bby.com.au (Gregory Bond)
Thu, 29 Sep 1994 01:04:05 GMT

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From: gnb@bby.com.au (Gregory Bond)
Keywords: linker, performance
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
References: 94-09-122 94-09-162
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 01:04:05 GMT

Sure, 70's technology linkers are old, but they have one major advantage:
doing a simple job, they can be quick. The more work the linker has to
do, the slower it gets. And linking is the the one part of the program
building process that has a serial bottleneck. The more work that we can
push into the "compiler", the better we are able to use multiprocessors
(simply by using a parallel make, if nothing else).


Linking is already enough of a bottleneck that there apparently is a
market for third-party high-speed incremental linkers (e.g. Purelink).
Any serious work on "ld-The Next Generation" is going to have to have
parallelisation as a high priority. And given the global nature of the
job, I'm not sure there is huge scope.


Greg, who is happy not to have to link 10Mb binaries....
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Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au>
Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia
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