[Mageia-dev] time to try to build KDE with gold as linker?

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 9 September 2011 01:59, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Also from the mandriva thread  [1]. maybe we can considere switching to
>> gold by default for all packages (with somes exceptions for kernel &
>> others packages).
>
> I remember gold being a compromise which has better build speed but
> worse run-time performance. However, I haven't seen this mentioned
> recently, and as cooker has switched to it, I suspect I may misremember
> or this might have changed since.
>
> Can someone confirm that there is indeed no run-time downside to gold?

I don't remember having read something like that.

Btw both RH/FC & mdv have switched to gold.