On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Khem, > > On 7 August 2012 22:26, Khem Raj <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
