David Lang wrote:
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> Any chance that the machine that was so much slower ran into memory
> swapping problems to make it take so much longer?
Hi, Dave.
No, it wasn't that. There was a problem with the x86 linker scripts
which was causing the linker to have to process >4,000 sections in a way
which it isn't very good at.
Graham has fixed this and the -ffunction-sections linkage time is now
well under a second!
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