Patrick Palka <patr...@parcs.ath.cx> writes: > ... so it's weird that your build times are constant because building > a thin archive is much faster than building a regular archive and > using a thin archive should not make subsequent steps, like linking > that archive, slower. So overall build times should be lower.
Linking a thin archive requires opening each archive member as a file instead of only reading within a single file. This could add some non-trivial overhead. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
