-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections vs. string-inst

[Loren James Rittle]

>The efforts that have been made to optimize string linking are really
>wonderful, but they slooooow down compiles. I'm thinking it's time to 
>enable -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections instead of this approach, 
>which [...]

Can you hear the applause? ;-)

I will add your patch to my build tree and see what happens.

Loren