On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:47 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2013-12-03 10:18 -0800, Brian Smith wrote: > > Also, I would be very interested in seeing "size of libxul.so" for > > fully-optimized (including PGO, where we normally do PGO) builds. Do > > unified builds help or hurt libxul size for release builds? Do unified > > builds help or hurt performance in release builds? > > I'd certainly hope that nearly all of the difference in size of > libxul.so is debugging info that wouldn't be present in a non-debug > build. But it's worth testing, because if that's not the case, > there are some serious improvements that could be made in the C/C++ > toolchain... Well, not really. In the case of unified builds, the compiler sees larger translation units, so it has better opportunity for optimizations such as inlining, DCE, etc. -- Ehsan <http://ehsanakhgari.org/> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
