Can massive nested loops cause the linker to run endlessly when compiling in Release-Mode?

Question

I\'m compiling a very small Win32 command-line application in VS2010 Release-Mode, with all speed optimizations turned on (not memory optimizations).

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Answer 1

Here in my company we discovered something similar.

As far as I know it is no endless loop, just a very long operation.

This means you have to options:

1. turn off the optimizations
2. wait until the linker has finished

You have to decide if you really need these optimizations. Here the program is just a little helper, where it does not matter if the program is running 23.4 seconds or 26.8. The gain of program speed compared to the build speed are making the optimizations nearly useless. At least in our special scenario.