[boost] Fixing slow link times

From: Dave Gomboc (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-01 17:11:54

> Here at Transversal we recently came upon the problem of 
> really slow link times...
[snip]
> ...90% of the time was 
> spent merging the strings of debug constants...
[snip]
> So we hacked gcc to add a new option which disables this 
> merging. It took our link times for our python bindings from 
> 20mins (on a dual 1Ghz Athlon with 1G ram) to just over 4s, a 
> 300x improvement!

Specifying -fwritable-strings will cause GCC to not attempt to merge
string literals et al.  Does that work for your situation?

Yes, GCC's constant string merge algorithm is O(n^2).

Dave