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Re: optimizations for 3x speedup in ld
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:09 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > I'm attaching the patch so people can see it/test it/comment on it,
> > keeping in mind this is copyright Novell for now.
>
> I have had a look over the patch - it certainly does improve the link
> times. There were a few small issues with regard to formatting and
> comment layout, but nothing serious. So provided that Novell want to
> contribute the code we will be very happy to accept it.
>
> Please could you check with Novell management to make sure that it is OK
> for you to contribute the patch and if so, please let us know.
Yep, working on it.
> PS. I had a thought that might improve the speed of the
> walk_wildcard_consider_section() function. What if you removed the
> duplicate test of wildcardp (list_tmp->name) ? eg:
Sure, you could do that. I didn't put any effort into optimizing that
code because very few wildcard statements have exclusion lists, so it
doesn't really matter.
Rob