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Re: [RFC] multithreaded bfd?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:14:46 +0930
- Subject: Re: [RFC] multithreaded bfd?
- References: <200607260059.k6Q0xkrK002296@greed.delorie.com>
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:59:46PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> * Resolving undefined symbols.
You can't easily do this in parallel. Firstly, all the threads will be
contending for linker symbol table access. Secondly, some symbol
resolution rules make this a serial operation. Consider extraction
of files from archives, and resolution of weak symbols.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre