Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 23:43:32 -0800 (GMT)
From: "Rafael R. Sevilla" <rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: DJGPP newsgroup mail <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Slow linking
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I've been playing around with djgpp for some time now, and it links very
slowly. Its compilation seems to be fine. I wrote a brief program that
computes the nth Fibonacci number by using recursion (a favorite run
benchmark), just for the sake of illustration, and it compiles (with a -c
option producing only objects) quickly enough, finishing after approx-
imately 4 seconds, comparable to Watcom 9.0. It takes nearly 25 seconds to
compile and link an executable. That tells me that I'm probably spending 
somewhere from 50-80 percent of my time just linking on projects of small 
to medium size. Why?

I've heard whispers from message traffic here that there's a patch or
something for the linker, or the library routine the linker calls, or
something like that, that attempts to remedy this problem. The ld I use is
dated January 31, 1996. Is there another version?

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University of the Philippines                           Rafael R. Sevilla
PABX/OVCA: Diliman Networking Project          rsevilla AT sauron DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
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