(Split from D113167)
Benchmarking on one of our large apps which exports a few thousands symbols,
this showed an improvement of ~17%.
x ./LLD_no_parallel.txt + ./LLD_with_parallel.txt N Min Max Median Avg Stddev x 10 84.01 89.41 88.64 87.693 1.7424061 + 10 71.9 74.29 72.63 72.753 0.77734663 Difference at 95.0% confidence -14.94 +/- 1.26763 -17.0367% +/- 1.44553% (Student's t, pooled s = 1.34912)
(wallclock)