[C++-sig] Slow gcc 3.2 links

[David Abrahams]

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at yahoo.com> writes:

> When linking my Boost.Python V2 extension modules with gcc 3.2 under Linux 7.3
> and 8.0 I have to wait up to 10 minutes per link command to finish. gcc <=
> 3.0.4 never had this problem. The machine does not run out of core memory when
> linking with 3.2, but uses 99% of a CPU all the time. Do others have similar
> observations, or is it just me doing something stupid?

Is this new? I've never observed this before.

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