tree b910a310c82a075b7e17104d8a2f770391ee5560
parent ca290169ab219a414dbae8124f442559c907ea4d
author Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com> 1588212028 -0400
committer Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com> 1588282202 +0000

[dev.link] cmd/link: use more compact representation for external relocations

Currently, for external relocations, the ExtReloc structure
contains all the fields of the relocation. In fact, many of the
fields are the same with the original relocation. So, instead, we
can just use an index to reference the original relocation and
not expand the fields.

There is one place where we modify relocation type: changing
R_DWARFSECTREF to R_ADDR. Get away with it by changing
downstreams.

It also makes it easier to retrieve the reloc variant.

This reduces some allocation. Linking cmd/compile with external
linking,

name           old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
Reloc_GC         34.1MB ± 0%    22.7MB ± 0%  -33.30%  (p=0.000 n=5+4)

Change-Id: Id08a89ed2aee705296886d3b95014b806a0d55cf
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/231217
Run-TryBot: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Faller <jeremy@golang.org>