[OE-core] [PATCH] binutils: Enable threaded linking with gold

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Khem,
>
> On 7 August 2012 22:26, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This options will let gold spawn multiple
>> threads for linking and speeding up linking
>> on multicore build hosts.
>
> I turned on the DISTRO_FEATURE ld-is-gold and rebuild my toolchain and
> then webkit-gtk, but there was no improvement in build time (I'm
> attributing a 20s difference in build time to noise considering the
> build was 24 minutes).  Is there something else I need to change, as I
> was expecting WebKit would be a good winner with this.
>

hmm, yes I would think so too. My experiments were on a i386 box with
2G RAM I see considerable improvement on app linked with boost that I
tried. Can you recheck if ld is pointing to gold in
the cross toolchain install ?

> Ross
>
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