From: Bernd Jendrissek <bernd.jendrissek@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:23:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Message-ID: <loom.20090917T180857-851@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <fbs8es$1cd$1@sea.gmane.org>

Walter Bright <boost <at> digitalmars.com> writes:
> Sure, but I suggest that few projects reach this maxima. Case in point: 
> ld, the gnu linker. It's terribly slow. To see how slow it is, compare 
> it to optlink (the 15 years old one that comes with D for Windows). So I 
> don't believe there is anything inherent about linking that should make 
> ld so slow. There's some huge leverage possible in speeding up ld 
> (spreading out that saved time among all the gnu developers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker)

Note that gold is written in C++; the wikipedia quasi-stub article doesn't make
this clear.  Normally that wouldn't be relevant, but in this branch of the
thread it is.  Its C++-ness seems to be making an argument, but I don't know on
which side!