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		justincormack on Dec 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Banana Pi to Launch 24-Core Arm Server Generally it is the linker that seems to be the issue AFAIK. 32 bit platforms can no longer link at all for large programs like Firefox. Link time optimization will probably make this worse. The gold linker (that Android uses) uses less memory than GNU ld; possibly the llvm linker is better too.

jancsika on Dec 27, 2018 [–]

Are there any articles about the algorithm GNU ld uses and why it can't work efficiently with less memory?

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