"Martin v. Loewis" wrote: > > "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes: > > > BTW, the man-page for ld mentions an optimization option > > -On -- does anyone know what the affect of this option > > is and whether its GNU specific ? > > Yes, it is GNU specific. It currently (binutils 2.11) only supports > one level of optimization, and that is only used for ELF targets. On > ELF targets, if optimization is requested, the optimal table size for > the symbol table is computed. Since ELF uses a hashing mechanism, the > number of hash collisions depends on the table size. Under > optimization, the linker tries all table sizes, and choses the one > with the least collisions. Thanks for the explanations. Probably not worth looking at for Python, right ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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