[m-rev.] preliminary review: Removing dead code at link time.

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 11:12:10 +1000, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Linux/x86-64, `hello' goes from 4.1 MiB to 663 KiB in size
> and `mercury_compile' goes from 16 MiB to 13 MiB.
> (both statically linked to the Mercury libraries and stripped)

Did you measure the effect on the time taken by (a) the C compiler
and (b) the linker?

Zoltan.