On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, L505 wrote:
> > This statement needs some refinements:
> > The 10x slower is only on Windows, and is mostly consumed by the linker;
>
> Ahh just what I thought - because I've always found the compiler fast, just
> the linker is
> slow.
>
> I wonder what specific parts of the linker cause slow down. The object file
> format is slow
> and ineffecient, or just the code that runs the linker is not optimized?
The linker is slow on windows. Why, I don't know. Maybe it has to do with the
pecoff
standard.
Michael.
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