Fangrui Song 6f9646a598
[ELF] Parallelize --gc-sections mark phase (#189321)
Add `markParallel` using level-synchronized `parallelFor`. Each BFS
level is processed in parallel; newly discovered sections are collected
in per-thread queues and merged for the next level.

The parallel path is used when `!TrackWhyLive && partitions.size()==1`.
`parallelFor` naturally degrades to serial when `--threads=1`.

Uses depth-limited inline recursion (depth<3) and optimistic
load-then-exchange dedup for best performance.

Linking a Release+Asserts clang (--gc-sections, --time-trace) on an old
x86-64:

8 threads: markLive 315ms -> 82ms (-234ms). Total 1562ms -> 1350ms
(1.16x).
16 threads: markLive 199ms -> 50ms (-149ms). Total 1017ms -> 862ms
(1.18x).

and on Apple M4: markLive 61ms -> 13ms. Total 317.3ms -> 272.7ms
(1.16x).
2026-04-02 06:42:00 +00:00
2026-01-21 23:14:07 +01:00

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