RE: PATCH: Speed up ELF section merge

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: H. J. Lu
>Sent: 06 May 2005 15:57

>>   H.J., IIUIC this patch can't do anything to support the ld command line
>> options --hash-size=<NUMBER> and --reduce-memory-overheads; wouldn't it
>> be worthwhile providing a means of controlling whether it uses a large
>> hash table or not? 
>> 
> 
> I am full on my plate.  A patch is more than welcome.  Thanks.
 

  I will look at it over the weekend (if I can get --enable-targets=all
working on cygwin....).

  Do you think it would be a reasonable approach to define a global flag
variable for the entire bfd library that indicates minimal memory usage is
desired, and a function such as bfd_set_memory_usage_policy() to set it?  It
would allow us to make other functions small-memory friendly as we went
along, without changing any existing behaviour.

  The only other approach I can think of immediately would be to pass a
parameter all the way down from the bfd_XXX interface function until it
arrives at sec_merge_init, but that seems like a long way down the call
stack to me, so I think it's probably not the right approach.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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