[RFC] multithreaded bfd?

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:59:46PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> * Resolving undefined symbols.

You can't easily do this in parallel.  Firstly, all the threads will be
contending for linker symbol table access.  Secondly, some symbol
resolution rules make this a serial operation.  Consider extraction
of files from archives, and resolution of weak symbols.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre