RFR: JDK-8217723 Switch ld from bfd to gold on gcc toolchain

Thu Jan 24 13:20:42 UTC 2019

On 1/24/19 2:11 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> The default binutils linker used by gcc, the bfd linker, is slow.
> The new replacement, gold, has been distributed alongside gcc for
> several years now, and is a well mature, and much faster, replacement.

I would recommend testing this change on all supported targets. Gold is
definitely not as mature on all targets as bfd in my experience. There
are still some cases where it can cause issues.

Adrian

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