[MacPorts] #50509: llvm-3.8: remove unnecessary openmp variant
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Wed Feb 3 11:47:28 PST 2016
#50509: llvm-3.8: remove unnecessary openmp variant
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Reporter: howarth.at.macports@… | Owner: jeremyhu@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version: 2.3.4
Resolution: | Keywords: haspatch
Port: llvm-3.8 |
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Comment (by howarth.at.macports@…):
Note there will be a major speed improvement in the llvm tool chain with
-DLLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB:BOOL=ON compared to -DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON as
explained by Chris Bieneman...
All platforms see performance implications of dynamically linking
libraries as opposed to statically linking them. I don’t know whether that
hits Darwin or Linux worse, but I believe Darwin’s two-level name spacing
actually makes Darwin better than Linux. If I understand correctly it hits
windows worst of all because of how Windows handles weak symbol
resolution.
On all platforms I would expect the many shared libraries to be way worse
relative to one shared library. I expect that would be the case because
one of the complications of C++ is a lot of weak exports. Those come from
functions implemented in headers which are then compiled into each
generated object file. At static link time the linker resolves the
duplicates down to a single implementation. If you are linking one dynamic
library you will have way less symbols than if you are linking multiple
libraries because each library will have its own copy of the duplicated
symbols.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50509#comment:7>
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