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So a natural question to ask is whether LocalSymbol is an appropriate class or not. Conceptually, being local is orthogonal to the type. There can be an undefined local symbol (and I think some ABI like PPC actually has that for some special use case.) What do you think?
I is probably orthogonal, but having it in place is very handy to
change one thing at a time.
Note that each patch in the series makes the codebase smaller.
Unifying LocalSymbol is what I want to try in patch 4, which will
hopefully delete even more lines :-)
Cheers,
Rafael
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112–115 | For consistency with getSymbols, I'd name getLocalSymbols and getNonLocalSymbols. |
LGTM
I build three more programs with and without the series of patches for local symbols (and in addition to that with GNU gold) and observed that the patch series improved performance in all three cases.
Time is in milliseconds.
Clang (RelWithDebugInfo)
w/o patch 13730 w/patch 13224 gold 15795
Clang (RelWithDebugInfo without -f{function,data}-sections)
w/o patch 13300 w/patch 12790 gold 15185
gold in binutils 2.26
w/o patch 542 w/patch 501 gold 726
(The gap between our linker and gold is getting narrower, but that's not a topic of this patch.)
It cannot describe why there is a case that this patch had a negative impact on performance, but I confirmed that the your test result is correct using the archive file you sent to me. So there must be some hidden condition that this approach is not very good at it. But broadly speaking this seems a good one. This makes things much simpler and seems to improve performance in general.
I hoped you did not change the signature of getSymbol in this patch because that change made this patch a lot larger. You could have done that in a different patch. However, since I have already reviewed all the changes, this overall looks good to me.
For consistency with getSymbols, I'd name getLocalSymbols and getNonLocalSymbols.