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| author | pennae <github@quasiparticle.net> | 2021-12-21 19:34:40 +0100 |
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| committer | pennae <github@quasiparticle.net> | 2022-03-03 17:47:49 +0100 |
| commit | 2799fe4cdbe77e017544f2fe61ae9baef650dbe6 (patch) | |
| tree | 21294b63e66563fd7e2cad66da3afb4865bdf625 /doc/manual | |
| parent | 609779086301a600f4282a629d586bba6b6a485c (diff) | |
enable LTO in optimized builds
gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md index 7dd8387d8..d81e54e49 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md @@ -26,3 +26,6 @@ * Templates can now define a `welcomeText` attribute, which is printed out by `nix flake {init,new} --template <template>`. + +* Nix can now be built with LTO by passing `--enable-lto` to `configure`. + LTO is currently only supported when building with GCC. |