Slow algorithm used for string merging

[Stephan Tobies]

ext Alan Modra wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:15:57PM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote:
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>>>GNU ld version 2.14 20030612
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>>Might want to try the 2.15 branch.
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>Definitely, or mainline CVS, or one of HJ Lu's recent releases.
>You will find much improved link times.
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Yes,  _much_ better. Linking time down from ~3000s to ~40s. Still, of 
course an increase from ~7s when the object files were generated by gcc 
2.95.x, but that is now probably more a problem for the gcc folks, who 
should have an option to declare debug info as non-mergable.

Thanks for pointing me to that version!

BR

Stephan Tobies