[RFC] multithreaded bfd?

[Eric Christopher]

> So, what does everyone else think of this kind of idea?
> 

I think it sounds like a good idea. I do think we'll need to do 
something other than mmap the object files for this to work well though. 
Perhaps moving to an internally allocated set of data structures? i.e. 
as each file is read in it's translated to another format and then the 
descriptor is freed. This would give the advantage of having each 
reading thread do something instead of just I/O while we're beginning 
the link step, and we could hopefully free some memory instead of just 
mapping the object file into memory.

Just a couple of ideas.. :)

-eric