https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24700

          Issue ID: 24700
           Summary: MsCoffObj_getsegment is really slow O(n^2)
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: industry
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody@puremagic.com
          Reporter: dkorpel@live.nl

Code generation of an internal dub project at SARC takes way longer than necessary:

objflush_pointerRefs is called on an .obj file with ~4600 000 pointer refs. This calls MsCoffObj_getsegment(".dp$B") for each of them, which does a linear scan over all sections:

```
for (segidx_t seg = 1; seg < SegData.length; seg++)
{
     if (strcmp(...))
         ...
```

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/05b2c0dfe27f0797151e7c6f7c7db43f700c1edc/compiler/src/dmd/backend/mscoffobj.d#L1364

SegData.length is 61000 here.

ElfObj_getsegment uses a hash table for this, MsCoff_getsegment should do this as well.

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