RFC: LD: Changing the size of the delta used when growing merge offset maps

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

>>    Running the linker under sysprof shows that the append_offsetmap()
>>    function in merge.c is responsible for a large amount of the memory
>>    allocated during a link, and a lot of those allocations are calls to
>>    bfd_realloc().

> Is bfd_realloc really the bottleneck?

Not really no.  It does take a small amount of time, of course, especially
if a new memory region needs to be used.  But in the grand scheme of things
it is not actually a significant time hog.

Cheers
   Nick