[PATCH] Speculatively instantiate archive members
LLD parses archive file index table only at first. When it finds a symbol it is looking for is defined in a member file in an archive file, it actually reads the member from the archive file. That's done in the core linker. That's a single-thread process since the core linker is single threaded. If your command line contains a few object files and a lot of archive files (which is quite often the case), LLD hardly utilizes hardware parallelism. This patch improves parallelism by speculatively instantiating archive file members. At the beginning of the core linking, we first create a map containing all symbols defined in all members, and each time we find a new undefined symbol, we instantiate a member file containing the symbol (if such file exists). File instantiation is side effect free, so this should not affect correctness. This is a quick benchmark result. Time to link self-link LLD executable: Linux 9.78s -> 8.50s (0.86x) Windows 6.18s -> 4.51s (0.73x) http://reviews.llvm.org/D7015 llvm-svn: 226336
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