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Well I have never really had to compile any lengthy programs until recently.
To make matters even messier I have started to compile fairly medium sized
C++ programs with MSC and their LINKER.

From my personal experiments I never had problems with link times. 1) I
really didn't do any serious C++ at home 2) Until recently C was the only
programming language I used. However now I'm at a professional setting where
larger C++ programs are being compiled and the linking process takes forever
and a day. Like 5 minutes.

Ridiculous. I have seens advertisements for OPTILINK and even recall reading
a story where it was described that linking all the code for Word for Windows
during its development at Microsoft could take an hour or so. Conversely with
OPTILINK it took minutes. However Microsoft would have nothing to do with a
linker which it had not developed.

My question to all, have you dealt with OPTILINK and what was the difference?
Namley before... e.g. 10 minutes, after... 2 minutes. It is ridiculous when
you change one source code module and everything then has to be relinked.
Speaking of which, if memory serves ILINK is supposed to solve this problem.
(In fact it just occured to me as I posted this). After consulting the
"Environment and Tools" volume in MSC 7.0 it isn't even mentioned. Wait don't
tell me, it's mentioned in the supplemental text files.... still BS.

Anyway, I would like to know about OPTILINK nonetheless. I also have seen
another product advertised, BLINKER. If you have experience/opinions on this
product it would also be appreciated if you passed them my way.

Please respond directly,
Mario Pacheco