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

[Martin Buchholz]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:28 PM Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:

> > Do the constituent object files have debugging information?  Sub-second
> > processing times for ~350 MiB of output are rather impressive.
>
> Ah! That must be it. I just tried with --with-native-debug-symbols=none
> and then I get comparable link times.

Yup!
Native debug symbols - more trouble than they're worth.