performance problem when linking for windows

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jeff,

> Hello.  Is this list an appropriate place to ask questions about the
> performance of binutils?

Yes :-)

> These are all the items above 1% of the link time when I build the
> linker with profiling:

>  10.49    165.97    22.11     104704     0.00     0.00  wild_sort

> Does anyone have some advice on where I might look to speed this up?

Have you seen this:
   http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/02/optimizing_gnu.html

The patch has not yet been accepted into the binutils because of 
copyright assignment problems, but you still might find it useful for 
yourself.

Cheers
   Nick