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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.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre