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_pmf_ on April 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC 4.9.0 released

> Memory usage building Firefox with debug enabled was reduced from 15GB to 3.5GB; link time from 1700 seconds to 350 seconds

Why does using LTO reduce link time? It would expect the result to be smaller, but transient memory usage to be significantly higher.

joosters on April 22, 2014 [–]

It doesn't reduce link time, the comparison is between LTO link times for old & new gcc.

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