patch / RFD: speed up linker map file generation

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Ben,

> There are plenty of applications that detect the amount of available
> working memory and adjust their behaviour accordingly.  Can't the
> linker do the same?

Yes - in fact this would definitely be a good idea.

> It seems unfortunate that we mere humans must
> instruct the program to do something that it can probably figure out
> better itself.

I still believe that we need the command line switches to override the 
linker's behaviour in order to control it in special situations.  eg 
when the user doe snot want the linker to use all of the available memory.

Cheers
   Nick