Linker performance : ppc64_elf_check_directive & add_symbol_adjust
Andy Younger
andy.younger@gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 07:32:00 GMT 2006
> This was from a project involving thousands of input files.
> check_directives is called once per input file, and was iterating
> over all the symbols. It really only needs to process newly added
> dot symbols, so was doing an enormous amout of unnecessary work.
Hi Alan,
Thanks so much for looking at this..
After applying this patch on a vanilla copy of our binutils package I
get a 35% speedup, Pretty damn good! The top 4 functions are now.
47.79 11.35 11.35 4292228 0.00 0.00 sec_merge_hash_lookup
12.29 14.27 2.92 494122 0.00 0.00 walk_wild_section
11.33 16.96 2.69 1746701 0.00 0.00 bfd_hash_lookup
3.41 17.77 0.81 26999695 0.00 0.00 fnmatch
Previously I had some patches applied to do with increasing the hash
table size, which probably account for the difference in times in the
sec_merge_hash_lookup call.
Thanks again,
Andy
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