Re: Dropping tsort for archive creation

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20150702220349.GA8752%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
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>Hi all,
>in the old days, sorting archive members topologically helped to improve
>build time. I don't think it provides a significant advantage anymore as
>most systems will keep the archives in memory during linking and lookup
>is generally helped by the index. Newer linkers like gold, lld or
>mclinker or designed to build an in-memory index as well to allow
>single pass processing of archives. As such, I want to propose getting
>rid of the complexity. Trying it on my laptop saves 30s (of about 1h),
>so change is pretty much in the noise. Comments?

I don't see the win here. All the complexity is hidden, and if it aint
broken... I don't even remember when it was the last time I had to worry
about lorder or tsort. What's the next step, to remove those tools? What's
the grand plan here?

christos