reducing reloc syms to section syms

[Geoff Keating]

> Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 19:08:05 +0930
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>

> OK, let's ignore the linker for the moment.  I'm not too worried about
> link time, which tends to be fairly small compared to compile time.

For large projects, often the link time is the biggest component of
the compile part of the edit/compile/debug cycle, because changing one
file is still only one compile but it requires a full re-link.  I know
that the Mozilla people in particular have had to do some tricky
things to try to get their link time down.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>