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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Using Borland C++
Message-ID: <1038@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 18:18:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.171426.28904@SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
>
>1) Linking even a minimal Windows program on my 386SX takes twenty minutes.
>   Using Hyperdisk in Staged Write mode will cut the time down to about five.
>

From the description of your setup, I suspect that you're running Windows in
386-Enhanced Mode, and running BC.EXE in a DOS box.  Now look at the size of
BC.EXE -- it is a huge program with overlays and such.  When you make it spawn
the linker, no wonder it takes so long to link.  Use the Borland-suggested
method.  Install TKERNEL and run Windows in Standard Mode, open a DOS session
and run BCX.EXE.  Your compiles and links will fly.  You will, however have
a longer wait when switching to another DOS session (for your editor).

I have a question about pre-compiled headers.  This feature is a miracle,
but it seems like a new header image (.SYM) needs to be created during the MAKE
process whenever a file is compiled which includes a set of headers which is
different from the current .SYM image.  In other words, the project maintains
only one .SYM image.  So if your project contains two files, each including
a different set of headers, turning on the pre-compiled header option doesn't
save you any time.  Is there a way around this, so that the project can
handle multiple .SYM files (disk space is not a problem)?

>
>Dave.Lord@SanDiego.NCR.COM
>
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