Assembling large files seemed a bit slow, so I did some
investigations. It turned out that long lines was making it slow.
There is a huge difference with a file with 100*"\t.long 0\n"
and a file with "\t.long 0" + (99*",0")
Numbers talk, so here is a little table. First column is numbe
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:05:09PM +0200, Anders Waldenborg wrote:
> So I fired up oprofile and did some profiling. lex_got in tc-i386.c
> turned up as the main offender.
>
> Without any deeper knowledge of the code it seems really stupid that
> lex_got checks until end of line when it is called o
