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Re: PATCH: Use a double section list to speed up linker by 30%


On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:51:57AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> 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?
> 

I don't think I can choose singly/doubly linked list at run time.


H.J.


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