improving ld performance

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Andy,

> I've been experimenting with changing the DEFAULT_SIZE of hash table
> in bfd/hash.c and got significant improvements in LD CPU times when
> linking one of our images (see below). I was wondering whether I can
> set this from the command line or linker script?

There are no such options at present, but I think that this would be a
very good idea.  Would you like to develop a patch to do it ?

Cheers
        Nick