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Re: RFC: Speeding up libstdc++.so with --dynamic-list-data
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:38:00 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: Speeding up libstdc++.so with --dynamic-list-data
- References: <20070109022553.GB14047@lucon.org>
H. J. Lu writes:
> I am enclosing a patch to implement a new linker swicth,
> --dynamic-list-data. It is -Bsymbolic for function symbols only.
> I tried it with C, C++, Java and Fortran on Linux/ia32, Linux/x86-64
> and Linux/ia64. There are only a few regressions. The function calls
> within the new resulting DSOs will bind locally. It speeds up
> the enclosed C++ testcase by
>
> 1. 23% on ia64.
> 2. 6% on ia32.
> 3. 3% on x86-64.
>
> Should we consider such optimization?
That's a terrible name for the option. What does it mean?
Andrew.