pcc wrote:
The performance impact of this change on firefox-x64 on an M2 Ultra was
```
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 2801 1.2972602 1.4316316 1.3621663 1.3620049 0.019557658
+ 2801 1.2877738 1.4305345 1.3634474 1.3630622 0.019953389
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.00105723 +/- 0.00103472
0.077623% +/- 0.0759707%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0197565)
```
The delta is fairly small so I don't think that performance is a strong reason
not to make this change. That being said, after having given this more thought
I do feel that the compatibility reason given in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133531#issuecomment-2795136942 has
some merit so I intend to rework this with a new relocation type for directly
producing IRELATIVE in the output.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133531
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