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* Performance datapoint - impact of static libs
@ 2011-07-15 13:31 Richard Purdie
  2011-07-15 13:37 ` Phil Blundell
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From: Richard Purdie @ 2011-07-15 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-core

Before:

real	104m1.135s
user	415m57.560s
sys	61m31.180s

With "--disable-static" being passed to configure (changes below):

real	99m46.645s
user	383m32.390s
sys	60m42.170s

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.

The changes were effectively:

DISABLESTATIC = "--disable-static"
DISABLESTATIC_pn-sqlite3-native = ""
DISABLESTATIC_pn-openssl = ""
DISABLESTATIC_pn-openssl-native = ""
DISABLESTATIC_pn-qemu-native = ""
EXTRA_OECONF_append  = " ${DISABLESTATIC}"

in local.conf with a patch to the openjade-native recipe to not install
the .a file using oe_libinstall and a patch to apmd to fix a libtool
related compiling bug in its makefile.

Cheers,

Richard





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* Re: Performance datapoint - impact of static libs
  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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Phil Blundell @ 2011-07-15 13:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer

> 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.

p.





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* Re: Performance datapoint - impact of static libs
  2011-07-15 13:37 ` Phil Blundell
@ 2011-07-20 14:50   ` Richard Purdie
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Purdie @ 2011-07-20 14:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer

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





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