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From: | peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) |
Subject: | Re: Faster floppy I/O |
Message-ID: | <DoJzLG.CGJ@cfanews.harvard.edu> |
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Organization: | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Date: | Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:34:27 GMT |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: : Probably because of `fseek'. The current version in the v2.0 library was : broken in the original v2.0 release. When this was discovered (it broke a : few very popular programs, like `patch') it was quickly fixed in a way : that gives high confidence in the bugfix, but at the price of performance. : To be fixed in future releases. Does this affect ld.exe? Linking always seems to take a long time, and generates a lot of disk activity (which I don't think is swapping because doing the link from an HPFS disk instead of a compressed disk speeds it up considerably).
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