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The Saturday 2007-03-03 at 12:17 -0800, John R. Sowden wrote:
> A while back this thread mentioned Borland's 'Smart Linking' in one of its
> Pascal compilers, but not the current (at the time) C compiler). As this
> process only makes sense to minimize program size, therefore decreasing load
> time, and probably run time, as more RAM is available, it this process being
> used by today's current compilers?
>
> If not, why not? Is Borland holding the rights, like the tire and oil
> companies buying and closing the trains, or Intuit's buying 'In House
> Accountant', then shelving it.?
No, no. Free Pascal uses the same or similar technique. I don't know how
they do it, but in Borland case they could do it because TPascal did not
use the "standard" linker and .obj file structure with extra information,
but a different one (.tpu) designed for the purpose. Their C compiler used
a standard linker (almost), so it didn't have smart linking.
On the other hand... I doubt the technique is usefull with OOP.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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