Excessive link time with 2.16.1

[H. J. Lu]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:06:15PM -0500, David M. Lee wrote:
> Interesting.
> 
> Here are the link times for the example mentioned in PR2342 and my application for various binutils.  The patch helped a lot, but it's not the only problem.
> 
>        | 2.15.94.0.2.2 |  2.16.1 | 2.16.1 +PR2342 patch
> -------+---------------+---------+---------------------
> slowld |    4m 17s     |  4m 16s |       15s
> myapp  |       11s     | 13m 03s |    1m 07s
> 
> So the patch definitely fixes the problem the 'slowld' example had, and addresses most of the problem with myapp.
> 

The Linux binutils 2.17.50.0.2 includes that patch.


H.J.