exception handling poll

[Joern Rennecke]

> So.  Given the number I posted last night at 12.5%, a patch I put 
> together this evening that yields about 11% on x86, a rock-bottom
> minimum somewhere between 4.5 and 6% (depending on other constraints)
> and the fact that the sparc port is already down at 5.4%:
> 
>   Is it worth spending the effort required to get that last 5%,
>   possibly by requiring a new version of gnu ld?  Or would I just
>   be wasting my time since the overhead would still be considered 
>   unacceptible?

Why don't you implement first a scheme that makes the linker strip all EH
info if there is no user of EH info?  That looks like a greater saving to
me.

Of course, a low-overhead EH scheme is still important if you need EH
info in shared libraries.