Torvalds Is Unconvined By LTO’ing A Linux Kernel

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Yesterday patches were published via a pull request to enable experimental LTO support for the Linux 3.15 kernel, but Linus Torvalds hasn’t yet decided whether he will accept this code in the upstream Linux kernel… Linus doesn’t yet see the benefits in link-time optimizations for the kernel and isn’t sure whether this code is ready yet to be mainlined…

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