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Re: PATCH: Use a double section list to speed up linker by 30%
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au dot ibm dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 10:51:57 +1000
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Use a double section list to speed up linker by 30%
- References: <20050501165707.GA13713@lucon.org>
H. J. Lu wrote:
> I know some people have concerns over memory usage. But I will take a
> faster linker with a bigger memory footprint than a slower linker any
> day. I am planning to include it in the Linux binutils if it isn't in
> the FSF binutils.
The linker grew a `--reduce-memory-overheads' option that could be used to control
such behaviour. Can you make your change conditional on that switch?
Ben