Re: parallelized 'ld'?

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>]

Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:04:31PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 
> > > 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
> 
> I'd suggest starting with a smaller table size.  Many object files only
> have a small number of symbols.  For example, I took a look at a glibc
> build and found the average symbol table size for .o files was only 27
> symbols.  Many of these are not globals so won't find their way into
> the linker hash table.

But we don't have one hash table per object file.  We have one hash
table for the entire link.  A single overly large hash table, within
reason, is harmless.

Ian