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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Speed of linking
Message-ID: <8805132300.AA26431@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 13 May 88 23:00:13 GMT
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>I'm working on a program whose load module takes up about 130K. It's
>composed from about 40 modules organized into four libraries (created
>with lb). The link (ld) step takes too much time. Experimenting with
>flags with this much code will take a huge amount of time, so I'm hoping
>someone else knows this: Are there any compiler or linker flags I should
>be using that would speed up the link step? (E.g. large memory model?)
>
>I already have everything in vd0:.
>
>Jack Orenstein

	40 modules?  Sounds like some of those should be libraries...
link libraries that is.  Take a logical subset of modules which you
are no longer modifying (or not modifying very often) and create a link
library out of it.  Another fix would be to change your programming
habits... 40 modules for only a 130K load module????

	Also, try putting your objects in RAM: ... RAM: is much faster
than VD0: (6x faster, in fact).  I always put temporary or regeneratable
files in RAM:.  Still, since you have 40 object modules, you might want
to keep them in Vd0:, and only copy them to RAM: to link them.

					-Matt