Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!jack
From: jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Speed of linking - again
Message-ID: <28205@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 03:17:50 GMT
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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A few days ago I asked how I could increase the speed of the link step
for the manx compiler. A couple of people responded by saying that ram:
is considerably faster than vd0:, and that it would help to move the .o
and libraries into ram: (they were in vd0:).

I tried this, and it did not seem to help *at all*. The link time was
95 seconds when everything was in vd0:, when the libraries (mine as
well as c.lib and m.lib) were moved to ram:, and again when the ln target
was placed in ram:

Am I missing something? Is there some correct way to set up ram: that
I didn't use? (I just copied stoff over to ram: and it appeard.)
WHAT'S GOING ON?

Both vd0: and ram: were present during my tests. I'm sure that ram:
was used as indicated since I removed files from vd0: when they were
moved to ram:.


Jack Orenstein