Test whether using cmd/compile and cmd/link directly is faster

Question

Test whether using cmd/compile and cmd/link directly is faster

mvdan opened this issue 8 years ago · 1 comments

We use go build right now. We should test if using the compiler and linker directly noticeably speeds up the compiler roundtrip.

Answer 1 · 2017-04-30T15:59:53.000Z

Actually, their use is not as simple as it sounds - we have to take care of -L and -I, for example. And not even sure if the speedup would be noticeable - on a simple program importing a non-trivial non-std package, go build clocks in at ~170ms, while compile is ~30ms and link is ~140ms.

Not going to consider this for now.