When using Rela, don't write the addend to the output section.
The Elf_Rela has an explicit addend. It doesn't need the addend to be written to the section being relocated. Since relative relocations are very common in the output, this is a noticeable speedup. The results I got were chromium master 4.778149487 patch 4.761120792 0.996436131802 chromium fast master 1.896253636 patch 1.840990582 0.970856718241 the gold plugin master 0.399337811 patch 0.392279276 0.982324401032 clang master 0.666873675 patch 0.665895708 0.998533504865 llvm-as master 0.037101095 patch 0.037123149 1.00059442989 the gold plugin fsds master 0.422473396 patch 0.414192879 0.980399909016 clang fsds master 0.747302008 patch 0.744843964 0.996710775599 llvm-as fsds master 0.033146245 patch 0.033064531 0.997534743377 scylla master 4.08857525 patch 4.082245184 0.998451767275 llvm-svn: 269417
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