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Re: parallelized 'ld'?


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:34:31AM -0500, Cynbe ru Taren wrote:
> ('ld' being a core and mature GNU utility, I'm presuming all
> the low-hanging fruit in terms of monoprocessor performance
> tuning has long since been picked.  Am I being naive?)

Yes. :)

> generate some harder data

That would be valuable.  I suspect a large amount of ld's time is
spent doing hash table lookup of various types: symbol, section,
string merge.  These operations may well benefit from tuning of
table size, or perhaps use of the expanding hash table implementation
in libiberty.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre


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