[desktop-discuss] [Fwd: Announcing Dolt, a drop-in Libtool replacement which cuts build times in half]

[Bob Friesenhahn]

Dolt illustrates that libtool performance should improve. However, the 
performance numbers posted by Dolt's author are based on an outdated 
version of libtool 1.5.X and libtool 2.2.X (containing four more years 
of development) is considerably faster.

I have already suggested on the libtool mailing list that DTrace can 
be used to help evaluate where libtool is losing time.  This is an 
area where OpenSolaris developers can help the open source community 
at large and illustrate that OpenSolaris is able to offer something 
that Linux does not.

Rather than patching around a performance issue, it seems best to 
resolve the performance issue based on the "all boats rise" concept.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/