Increase performance of libelf section list #8
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The existing internal section list is implemented as a singly-linked tail queue, and exhibits poor (O(n)) performance for some library functions (e.g. elf_getscn(), elf_strptr()). By replacing the queue with a resizable array, we can obtain O(1) access time and O(1) insertion time, since each section already keeps track of its own index.
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The existing internal section list is implemented as a singly-linked
tail queue, and exhibits poor (O(n)) performance for some library
functions (e.g. elf_getscn(), elf_strptr()).
By replacing the queue with a resizable array, we can obtain O(1) access
time and O(1) insertion time, since each section already keeps track of
its own index.