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From: whitney@sunnyland.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney)
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Subject: Re: Using Borland C++
Message-ID: <1991May2.192124.26449@unlv.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 19:21:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.154854.29070@SanDiego.NCR.COM>, davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
) From: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord)
) Subject: Re: Using Borland C++
) Date: 12 Apr 91 15:48:54 GMT
) Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
) 
) In article <1991Apr11.162855.10164@SanDiego.NCR.COM> davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
) >davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) (that's me!) 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.
) 
)  To all those people who kept telling me to run the compiler in protected
)  mode: you were right.
) 
)  The program I'm working on took 8 minutes to link in normal mode,
)  4 minutes with Hyperdisk in staged write mode, and 6 SECONDS when
)  I run the compiler in protected mode, and that's running under Windows.
) 
)  Color me astounded. I would kind of like to know where all that extra
)  time is going in normal mode.
) 
    Really!

	Why is protected mode an excuse?  The Turbo C 2.0 linker was lightning fast in real mode, so obviously it's possible to avoid at least an unreasonable delay.  That kind of link speed is not even livable let alone likable.