Is link386 slow, or what?

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From: Dennis Yelle
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:24

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I am porting a DOS program to OS/2.
I successfully linked it for the first time today with LINK386.
It took 1 minute 13 seconds.
I went to OS/2's DOS command line, and compiled and linked
the same source code for DOS, and the LINK time was 5 seconds,
with MicroSoft's LINK 5.13.
Does anyone know how to speed up LINK386?

The code was compiled with IBM's C Set/2 compiler.
I build 3 .lib's and the link step links 5 .obj's with
my 3 .lib's plus IBM's .lib's.
The .lib's were created by IBM's LIB.EXE.
The LINK386 options are:

  LINK386 /a:16 /base:65536 /m /noi /pm:vio /st:0x1a000

I have "DISKCACHE=512,LW,32" in CONFIG.SYS.
I am running on a 33 Mhz 486 with 16 MB of RAM.

LINK386 produces a 150K .EXE file, and takes 1 min 13 seconds to do so.
While LINK386 is running, the disk drive light is on constantly, and
PULSE shows the system is about 20% busy.

Can anyone help???

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Dennis Yelle (bbs.dennis@tsoft.sf-bay.org)

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