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I spent a week to optimize LLD performance and just wanted to share things what I found. Also if there's anyone who have a good idea on how to make it faster, I'd like to hear. My focus is mainly on Windows, but my optimizations are generally platform neutral. I aim both single-thread and multi-thread performance. r231434 <http://reviews.llvm.org/rL231454> is a change that has the

...gger > .eh_frame: 438 376 bytes bigger > .comment: 77 797 bytes bigger > .data.rel.ro: 48 056 bytes bigger Did you try --merge-strings with lld ? --gc-sections > > The comment section is bigger because it has multiple copies of > > clang version 3.7.0 (trunk 232021) (llvm/trunk 232027) > > The lack of duplicate entry merging would also explain the size > difference of .rodata and .eh_frame. No idea why .data.rel.ro is > bigger. > > So, with the big warning that both linkers are not doing exactly the > same thing, the performance numbers I got were: > >...