Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!think!husc6!cca!jack
From: jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Speed of linking
Message-ID: <28161@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 16 May 88 13:38:29 GMT
References: <8805132300.AA26431@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jack@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Jack Orenstein)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 26

In article <8805132300.AA26431@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	40 modules?  Sounds like some of those should be libraries...
>link libraries that is.  

I'm already doing that. I have four libraries.

>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????

Would this really help? Wouldn't that give me fewer modules that take
longer to load, not affecting total time? (And I like my habits. Did
Picasso listen when they said "too much blue"?)

>	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.

Thanks - someone else suggested that too. I wasn't aware of the huge difference
in speed between vd0: and ram:

But I'm still wondering about the flags. Will the large memory module
or any other flags further improve speed?

Jack Orenstein