{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dealii/dealii/issues/1476","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dealii/dealii/issues/1476/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dealii/dealii/issues/1476/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dealii/dealii/issues/1476/events","html_url":"https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/1476","id":103951828,"number":1476,"title":"Use gold as the linker when available","user":{"login":"bangerth","id":7504421,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7504421?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth","html_url":"https://github.com/bangerth","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bangerth/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-08-30T21:24:08Z","updated_at":"2015-08-31T01:01:55Z","closed_at":null,"body":"http://blogs.s-osg.org/an-introduction-to-accelerating-your-build-with-clang/ shows that one can get nice speedup by using gold instead ld as the linker. On manycore machines (e.g., my 64-core build servers) it usually takes about 5 minutes to compile everything, plus 2 minutes to link everything. The last phase of course is sequential, so I *really* case about link time.\r\n\r\nhttps://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137953 seems to have some useful ideas."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dealii/dealii/issues/comments/136226352","html_url":"https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/1476#issuecomment-136226352","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dealii/dealii/issues/1476","id":136226352,"user":{"login":"tamiko","id":3432917,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3432917?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko","html_url":"https://github.com/tamiko","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tamiko/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-31T01:01:54Z","updated_at":"2015-08-31T01:01:54Z","body":"Id' suggest we enable it for recent gcc compiler version (in the hope that binutils that ships ld.gold is also recen one), and see whether we encounter some problems."}}