Re: one-big library approach of mozilla ...

On 2/14/2012 4:24 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Taras,
>
>         We're running into some fun performance&  development iteration
> problems with LibreOffice as we plan to merge more libraries together;
> and I was wondering - how does Mozilla deal with that ?
>
>         How long does it take your developers to link / go around a development
> iteration ? are you using incremental linking ? and/or is there a
> different library separation for developers ? or is it basically fast to
> link (even with debuginfo) :-)
Sorry, don't have a magic bullet for this.
We just suffer 30second+ link times for our main library. Apparently 
gold has incremental linking support on some platforms now, that might help.
>         Tips&  tricks appreciated; oh - and ! thanks for your hospitality
> during FOSDEM :-) great to catch up.
Always great to trade ideas with you :)

Taras