[lld] [LLD][MachO] Option to emit separate cstring sections (PR #158720)

[Ellis Hoag via llvm-commits]

ellishg wrote:

> Maybe a little bit off-topic, but could we consider installing string tail merging for `__objc_methname`? I am wondering if this worth a dedicated RFC thread. Previously it was disabled unconditionally for linking performance (see https://reviews.llvm.org/D117273). Would it make sense to revisit the trade-offs now, perhaps behind a flag or with heuristics, given potential size wins on large ObjC codebases?

I wasn't aware of string tail merging. Thanks for sharing! I think it's definitely worth pursuing if it gives a size win. Do ObjC methods tend to have shares suffixes? I would assume they might share prefixes if two methods are the same but with different number of arguments.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/158720