60x speed-up of Linux “perf”
> Michał Sidor suggests building against libbfd, something that the Debian maintainers don’t want to do.<p>"don't want to" isn't quite correct - they <i>can't</i>.<p>Perf is licensed under the GPLv2, libbfd under the GPLv3. The licenses are incompatible, which makes the combination unredistributable - which is what Debian would be doing with it.<p>Debian is <i>legally not allowed</i> to do this.