GCC Patches Posted For Implementing Incremental LTO

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC Patches Posted For Implementing Incremental LTO

Michal Jires of SUSE posted a new set of patches on Friday for implementing Incremental LTO support for the GNU Compiler Collection. The goal here with Incremental LTO is for reducing compile times while doing quick edit-compile cycles while employing Link-Time Optimizations...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Incremental-LTO-Patches

[DanglingPointer]

GCC playing catch-up to LLVM

[oleid]

GCC playing catch-up to LLVM

So llvm already has incremental lto?

[DanglingPointer]

The article description of "incremental lto" sounds similar to -flto=thin

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html