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.
1 Signed-off-by: dank@kegel.com
3 Raising the size of the hash table is a noticable win when linking
4 at least one large app.
7 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-06/msg00165.html
8 to do this dynamically. No idea why that didn't make it in.
9 So this tiny change to raise the default size is just
13 --- binutils-2.15/bfd/hash.c.old 2003-12-01 01:33:01.000000000 -0500
14 +++ binutils-2.15/bfd/hash.c 2006-03-01 16:26:26.701991000 -0500
18 /* The default number of entries to use when creating a hash table. */
19 -#define DEFAULT_SIZE (4051)
20 +#define DEFAULT_SIZE (32749)
22 /* Create a new hash table, given a number of entries. */