[PATCH][binutils/bfd] Fixed performance of LD (linker) when many names end the same way

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Alan Modra wrote:

> I like the fact that the code now looks simpler.

The use of splay trees is not necessary if one simply uses a proper suffix
sort which is doable with the right predicate for qsort, which makes the
code even more clean.  I didn't post it yet, because I only now filed my
copyright assigment.  We had very good result for big C++ libraries when
compiled with debug infos (in which case the string tables become
extremely large).


Ciao,
Michael.