improving ld performance

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:26:32AM +0100, Lars Knoll wrote:
> Would it be a problem to just increase the default size of the hash tables? 

Yes.  The section hash table is per bfd, and some people link thousands
of objects at a time.  You wouldn't want to just blindly increase the
hash table size.

A patch to use the expanding hash tables in libiberty would be
accepted..

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre