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Re: [GOLD] ideas for speeding up gold

From: Nico Williams <nico at cryptonector dot com>
To: Geoff Pike <gpike at chromium dot org>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:45:39 -0500
Subject: Re: [GOLD] ideas for speeding up gold
References: <CADBJY1hfRsx-YCM1ND6XXoCFip3LK_B0NEp3qGA3aqjcgQ6PaA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Geoff Pike <gpike@chromium.org> wrote:
> Final thought: when it is time to compute the build ID, would calling
> msync() help encourage the OS to write dirty pages to the output file?
> I tried this and didn't see much effect, but I may try again after #1
> is fixed.

My impression is that it's better to msync() with MS_ASYNC then
fsync() the file descriptor.

Nico
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- [GOLD] ideas for speeding up gold
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