This method is called on each relocation when parsing input files, so
the overhead of using virtual functions ends up being quite large. We
now have a single non-virtual method, which reads from the appropriate
array of relocation attributes set in the TargetInfo constructor.
This change results in a modest 2.3% reduction in link time for
chromium_framework measured on an x86-64 VPS, and 0.7% on an arm64 Mac.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 11.869417 12.032609 11.935041 11.938268 0.045802324
+ 10 11.581526 11.785265 11.649885 11.659507 0.054634834
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.278761 +/- 0.0473673
-2.33502% +/- 0.396768%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0504124)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130000
1fb9466c6a