Testing confirms thin and fat LTO produce equivalently useful PGO data

charliermarsh · x · 2026-10-10

Charlie Marsh closes the thread with his test results: since thin and fat LTO share the same pre-link pipeline, he expected both to generate equivalently useful PGO profiling data — and his testing shows no meaningful difference, backing the thin-LTO-for-PGO build speedup.

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