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Re: parallelized 'ld'?
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: cynbe at muq dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, asmundak at cisco dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:31:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: parallelized 'ld'?
- References: <200307150234.h6F2YsNW028337@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU><87d6f63jes.fsf@muq.org> <200308261804.h7QI4VW26104@greed.delorie.com>
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
>> Automatically expanding hashtables when they reach ludicrous overload
>> levels isn't that hard -- I've been doing it without a second thought
>> in everything I've written for the last twenty years. No?
>
> Here's a quick patch to implement that, at least in a naive way. See
> if this makes a difference in link speed (at least for large apps; I
> don't notice a significant speedup for linking cc1) and if it's worth
> the effort I'll document it, clean it up, test it, and commit it.
As long as you're going to touch all this code anyway, why not make it
use hashtab.[ch] from libiberty?
zw