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From: pvkeer AT vub DOT ac DOT be (Vankeerberghen Pieter)
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Subject: Re: Faster floppy I/O
Date: 22 Mar 1996 08:15:05 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Bob Babcock wrote:

: > 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


snip snip

: The reason I'm not sure about the whole issue is that ld works reasonably 
: well for me (under native DOS) without any excess disk activity, although 
: I didn't really compare its speed with the v1.x version.

Well, I used ld v1 with djgpp v2 and did not notice a significant difference.