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floatboth on Feb 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: LLD is included in the upcoming LLVM 4.0 release

Heh, speaking of linking individual functions, GHC Haskell has a flag to emit one object file per function and do that thing with a traditional linker.

It's horribly slow.

But it produces smaller binaries, I've got 2x smaller binaries on my projects with that option.

ThisIs_MyName on Feb 20, 2017 [–]

Doesn't LTO produce even smaller/faster binaries anyway?

floatboth on Feb 20, 2017 | [–]

I'm not sure what's the state of LTO in GHC…

By the way: using LLD helped massively with linking all these small Haskell function objects. It's really much faster than even gold!

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