http://dow.ngra.de/2008/06/21/big-google-builds/ no buzzwords allowed Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dow.ngra.de/2008/06/21/big-google-builds/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Steve Jenson Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:00:23 +0000 http://dow.ngra.de/?p=126#comment-774 If you heard about gold, the new elf linker that was built by Googler Ian Lance Taylor, he talks about building 900MB binaries routinely. Part of why they wrote their own linker was that compiling can be done in parallel across many machines but linking is still serial so improving it's speed affects the bottom-line. If you heard about gold, the new elf linker that was built by Googler Ian Lance Taylor, he talks about building 900MB binaries routinely. Part of why they wrote their own linker was that compiling can be done in parallel across many machines but linking is still serial so improving it’s speed affects the bottom-line.

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