[lld] r244934 - Template OutputSection only over Is64Bit.

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits]

On 13 August 2015 at 23:05, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Rafael Espíndola
> <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Feel free to add this sort of thing to a TODO list of interesting things
>> > to
>> > look at in the future, but please avoid doing
>> > microoptimization-without-a-measured-performance-benefit until we have a
>> > working linker (and then, hopefully dropping the
>> > "without-a-measured-performance-benefit"). Almost every single one of
>> > these
>> > "NFC" patches are stepping on Michael's toes and holding up real "FC"
>> > patches that are what we need to get a working linker.
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>> That is the kind of behavior that landed us on the old lld.
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> Reality check: the old LLD was not slow due to lack of microoptimizations.

Reality check: I told Michael it would not work when he first told me
it was splitting sections and creating constraints to keep the parts
together.

Cheers,
Rafael