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by pja 4482 days ago
See this LWN article: http://lwn.net/Articles/192624/
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bjerun 4481 days ago
So it is not really optimizing the code - more like optimizing the symbol table?
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pja 4481 days ago
Yes, looks like it. The default symbol lookup can be really slow in some situations, especially in large C++ projects with can contain many symbols that share a long common prefix thanks to C++ name mangling.
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