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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Performance datapoint - impact of static libs
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:50:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311173454.2344.53.camel@rex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310737071.3805.38.camel@phil-desktop>

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 14:37 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > So static libs add an extra ~30mins of processing (7%) and ~5 mins to
> > the overall build time. Not as much of a gain as I'd have liked but
> > interesting none the less.
> 
> Do you know how many packages actually respect the --disable-static
> flag?  I don't think (e)glibc does, for example, which is a bit of a
> shame since it obviously has one of the largest build times.

I did a quick search over the resulting build looking for image/*.a
files and it seems a lot of the system did respect it. There were some
significant exceptions (eglibc, boost, openssl spring to mind) but in
general it looked pretty good.

Cheers,

Richard





      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-20 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-15 13:31 Performance datapoint - impact of static libs Richard Purdie
2011-07-15 13:37 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-20 14:50   ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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