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

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/25/19 5:01 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> I re-ran my linker performance experiment using  configure
> --with-native-debug-symbols="internal"
> lld is a big winner here:

It looks to me like lld and multi-threaded gold would be a near tie. I
think that lld uses multi-threading; I wonder why gold doesn't. But
either is so fast linking libjvm.so that I no longer care.

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Andrew Haley
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