If you have even had to build the Chromium browser from source using GNU Make, you will know that it is a very slow process even on a 4 core system. Ninja is a build system written by Evan Martin, who works for Google and is a Chrome developer, with the specific goal of improving the edit-compile cycle time. It currently only works on Linux. It can be dropped into a Chrome or Chromium build and behaves very similar to the GNU Make utility except it builds things much faster than make can. Typically you should use the Gold linker
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It is a bit strange that the Gold linker is still not the default linker on Red Hat, Fedora or Ubuntu or any of their downstream distributions. Gold has been around for a number of years, having been first released to the open source community in early 2008. It was developed by Ian Lance Taylor and a small team at Google. Gold is drop-in replacement for the traditional BFD (Binary File Descriptor) based linker on X86 and X86_64 platforms. It links object files up to five times faster than the BFD linker. On very large builds such as the Chromium |
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