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Mention FreeBSD ports status and wordsmithing. 

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30321

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@ -17,13 +17,16 @@ Features
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- LLD is a drop-in replacement for the GNU linkers. That accepts the - LLD is a drop-in replacement for the GNU linkers. That accepts the
same command line arguments and linker scripts as GNU. Although our same command line arguments and linker scripts as GNU.
linker is relatively new and still in active development, that is
already able to link the entire FreeBSD/amd64 base system including We are currently working closely with the FreeBSD project to make
the kernel. We are currently working closely with the FreeBSD LLD default system linker in future versions of the operating
project to make LLD default system linker in future versions of the system, so we are serious about addressing compatibility issues. As
operating system, so we are serious about addressing compatibility of February 2017, LLD is able to link the entire FreeBSD/amd64 base
issues. system including the kernel. With a few work-in-progress patches it
can link approximately 95% of the ports collection on AMD64. For the
details, see `FreeBSD quarterly status report
<https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.html#Using-LLVM%27s-LLD-Linker-as-FreeBSD%27s-System-Linker>`.
- LLD is very fast. When you link a large program on a multicore - LLD is very fast. When you link a large program on a multicore
machine, you can expect that LLD runs more than twice as fast as GNU machine, you can expect that LLD runs more than twice as fast as GNU
@ -127,7 +130,8 @@ Here is a brief project history of the ELF and COFF ports.
- July 2016: Started working on improving the linker script support. - July 2016: Started working on improving the linker script support.
- December 2016: Succeeded to build the entire FreeBSD base system - December 2016: Succeeded to build the entire FreeBSD base system
including the kernel. We had widen the gap against the GNU linkers. including the kernel. We had widen the performance gap against the
GNU linkers.
Internals Internals
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