patches/binutils/2.17/500-bfd-hash-tweak.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Sun Feb 17 22:12:59 2008 +0000 (2008-02-17)
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Robert P. J. DAY says:

According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
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Signed-off-by: dank@kegel.com
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Raising the size of the hash table is a noticable win when linking 
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at least one large app.  
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There was a patch,
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http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-06/msg00165.html
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to do this dynamically.  No idea why that didn't make it in.
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So this tiny change to raise the default size is just
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a stopgap for now.
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--- binutils-2.17/bfd/hash.c.old	2006-03-02 23:01:39.000000000 -0800
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+++ binutils-2.17/bfd/hash.c	2006-03-02 23:01:58.000000000 -0800
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@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
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 */
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 /* The default number of entries to use when creating a hash table.  */
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-#define DEFAULT_SIZE 4051
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+#define DEFAULT_SIZE 32749
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 static size_t bfd_default_hash_table_size = DEFAULT_SIZE;
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 /* Create a new hash table, given a number of entries.  */