parallelized 'ld'?

[Andrew Cagney]

[switching mailing lists from binutils@ to gdb@]

> * "gdb used to take inordinate amount of time to load on our platform. The
>    fix  was trivial, which likely means that few people ever use GDB on
>    such large executables."

I believe one identified problem is how the symbol table uses hash 
tables.  The symbol tables are being given a careful upgrade.  Was this 
what you noticed?

As for using GDB on large programs, mozilla is (or was) the reference - 
its startup has gone from impossible to tolerable.  I believe users now 
also have their sights on eclipse (compiled with gcj).  So increasing 
demand is definitly there.

Andrew