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From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Subject: Re: Faster floppy I/O
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:34:27 GMT
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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).