ICF = Identical C(ode|OMDAT) Folding
This is the LLD ELF/COFF algorithm, adapted for MachO. So far, only -icf all is supported. In order to support -icf safe, we will need to port address-significance tables (.addrsig directives) to MachO, which will come in later diffs.
check-{llvm,clang,lld} have 0 regressions for lld -icf all vs. baseline ld64.
We only run ICF on __TEXT,__text for reasons explained in the block comment in ConcatOutputSection.cpp.
Here is the perf impact for linking chromium_framekwork on a Mac Pro (16-core Xeon W) for the non-ICF case vs. pre-ICF:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev x 20 4.27 4.44 4.34 4.349 0.043029977 + 20 4.37 4.46 4.405 4.4115 0.025188761 Difference at 95.0% confidence 0.0625 +/- 0.0225658 1.43711% +/- 0.518873% (Student's t, pooled s = 0.0352566)
needs to be moved to ICF.cpp