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The symbol string table does not have deduplication. Here we add code to deduplicate the symbol string table. This has a rather large size impact (20-30%) on unstripped binaries (typically debug binaries) but no size impact on stripped binaries(typically release binaries). We enable deduplication by default and add a flag to disable it (`-no-deduplicate-symbol-strings`).
LLVM Linker (lld)
This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.
lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.
Benchmarking
In order to make sure various developers can evaluate patches over the same tests, we create a collection of self contained programs.
It is hosted at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz
The current sha256 is 10eec685463d5a8bbf08d77f4ca96282161d396c65bd97dc99dbde644a31610f.