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

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/25/19 6:43 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> repeating my last experiment with explicit --threads:

Weird, so you don't get the same performance improvement with threads
that I do. You have fewer cores, maybe? My tests were with 8 and 48,
respectively. I'm also seeing more than a factor of 2 speedup from
bfd to gold. But never mind: choice is good.

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