Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:42:22 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
        broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Subject: Re: c++ linking faq
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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.