Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/08/31/10:43:49
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> And what about the time and memory needed to scan the libstdc++.a? I don't
> know if that's important but I think we must check it before even thinking
> about it.
I agree.
> I don't know exactly why but ld is *very* slow under djgpp, the compiler
> isn't much slower than under Linux, but the linker is.
I think that's because it seeks a lot, and that defeats the aggressive
buffering dictated by the 16KB transfer buffer. People who tried v2.02
alpha, which uses heuristics to deal with that conflict, report that
programs which mix sequential and random reads run much faster.
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