After doing performance testing, it seems that multi-compilation-unit
compiler-rt did not bring the performance improvements that we expected
it to. The idea is that it makes linking faster, however, it incurred a
cost in the frontend that was not offset by any gains in linking.
Furthermore, the single-object compiler-rt (with -ffunction-sections and
--gc-sections) ends up being fewer bytes on disk and so it's actually
the same or faster linking speed than the multi-compilation-unit
version.
So we are planning to keep using single-compilation-unit compiler-rt for
the foreseeable future, but may experiment with this again in the
future, in which case this commit can be reverted.
Andrew Kelley
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