-ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections

[John-Mark Gurney]

Adrian Chadd wrote this message on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 14:56 -0700:
> ... I'd rather see if we can actually separate out things some more so
> these builds can shrink.
> 
> Eg, if there's malloc related functions that aren't used, maybe we should
> break malloc down into a directory full of functions.
> 
> I'm not surprised libc++ is doing .. that. It's likely better on the
> compile time to have things bundled up in one big source file. Sigh.

Depends.. one big file can't be parallelized over multiple cores, but
the startup of parsing all those headers will be a big penalty though...

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