Re: overhead of bfd_{get,put}*()

[David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>]

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:33:35 -0800

> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> 
>> From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:07:08 -0800
>>
>>> That is interesting.  Is there a linker script involved?  When there
>>> is no linker script, I have not yet seen any cases where gold is
>>> slower than GNU ld.
>>
>> No linker script.
>>
>> I assume you are testing exclusively on sparc like I am ;-)
> 
> Well, no, but I don't see why it would matter.  Unless it's something
> like mmap is slower than file I/O on Solaris.

I don't use Solaris, I use Linux on sparc exclusively.

> I'm certainly interested to hear whatever details you have on this.

Absolutely, I will check it out.