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The inlinees section contains references to the file checksum table. The
file checksum table in the PDB must have the same layout as the file
checksum table in the object file, so all the existing file id
references should stay valid.
Previously, we would do this:
for all inlined functions:
- lookup filename from checksum and string table
- make that filename absolute
- look up the new file id for that filename up in the new checksum
table
This lead to pdbMakeAbsolute and remove_dots ending up in the hot path.
We should only need to absolutify the source path once, not once every
time we process an inline function from that source file.
This speeds up linking chrome PGO stage 1 net_unittests.exe from 9.203s
to 8.500s (-7.6%). Looking just at time to process symbol records, it
goes from ~2000ms to ~1300ms, which is consistent with the overall
speedup of about 700ms. This will be less noticeable in debug builds,
which have fewer inlined functions records.
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.