[Mesa-users] very slow linking

[Brian Paul]

On 08/28/2015 03:20 PM, Clive McCarthy wrote:
> I'm using the Intel released Mesa 10.6.3 driver running on an Intel
> i5-5250U processor with an HD6000 (GT3) integrated GPU.
>
> The Mesa driver compiles my small GLSL code very quickly, just a few
> milliseconds, but the linking phase takes _over a minute_ = 60,800
> milliseconds to be exact. The shader then runs just fine. I have the
> same application and same shader on another platform which has an Nvidia
> driver for which the linking takes just milliseconds. My GLSL code does
> have a moderately long switch statement but nothing extreme.
>
> What on earth can the linker be doing?

Can you share your shader code with us?

-Brian