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From: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Linker Spooling
Message-ID: <70490@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:21:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.073359.343@eng.umd.edu>
Reply-To: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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If the linker runs out of memory, it uses a virtual memory scheme
and this can be quite slow.  As you've found, a ram disk helps.  Another
slant is to use a memory management program such as 386max or qemm to
make 'upper memory blocks' available.  This refers to memory above the
640K boundary, but below 1meg and not used by ROM or video buffers.  LINK
can take advantage of these.

Richard Gillmann
Microsoft Languages