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Thin archives were disabled in 2012 as a workaround (IIRC) for obsolete tooling on one of Joyent's platforms. The last binutils versions that didn't support them was released in 2007 so I think it's safe to assume we can drop support for that now - except on SmartOS, where the tooling still has a distinctive vintage feel to it. Thin archives save space - it shrinks the size of PRODUCT_DIR by 30% - and speed up the final linking step because it doesn't have to assemble 50 MB of static archives (twice! - first to create the archive, then to copy it to PRODUCT_DIR). The archives are just 3.5 MB now and no longer copied around. PR-URL: #7957 Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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