Re: optimizations for 3x speedup in ld

[Robert O'Callahan <rocallahan at novell dot com>]

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