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> 2) I think the ELF camp still thinks that linkers are “dumb”. That they > just collate .o files into executable files. The darwin linker does a lot > of processing/optimizing the content (e.g. Objective-C optimizing, dead > stripping, function/data re-ordering). This is why atom level granularity > is needed. If there is any linker in here that is dumb that is the old lld. It

On May 28, 2015, at 5:42 PM, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote: > I guess, looking back at Nick's comment: > > "The atom model is a good fit for the llvm compiler model for all architectures. There is a one-to-one mapping between llvm::GlobalObject (e.g. function or global variable) and lld:DefinedAtom." > > it seems that the primary issue on the