Linktime optimization in GCC, part 2 - Firefox

This time I will write about building Firefox with LTO. Firefox is one of largest binaries on my hard drive (beaten only by Chromium) so it is an excellent stress test. Taras Glek and I started to work on getting Firefox to build well in 2009 (see original paper from 2010), however for all those years I was mostly chasing correctness and compile time/memory usage issues. Markus Trippelsdorf was in

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FirefoxをLTO(Linktime optimization)でビルドする話。注意点、コンパイル時間、コンパイル時のリソース消費、ファイルサイズ、ベンチマークなどのグラフあり。