PATCH: Use a double section list to speed up linker by 30%

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Mon May 2 18:43:00 GMT 2005


Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com> writes:

> H. J. Lu wrote:
> 
> > I know some people have concerns over memory usage. But I will take a
> > faster linker with a bigger memory footprint than a slower linker any
> > day. I am planning to include it in the Linux binutils if it isn't in
> > the FSF binutils.
> 
> The linker grew a `--reduce-memory-overheads' option that could be used to control
> such behaviour.  Can you make your change conditional on that switch?

I didn't notice that when it went in.  Should
--reduce-memory-overheads imply --no-keep-memory?

Ian



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