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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 08:31:37 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com>
To: cremona AT vortex1 DOT ex DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: debug32 and demacs

>1. Why does debug32 take such a long time to load a program?  With a
>program size of 700-800K it takes many MINUTES to load which is
>tiresome as it usually only takes a second from then to run hte
>program, crash and say "where".

Because it loads all the symbols at startup.  I don't like it either,
but there isn't an easy way to fix it AND not run out of code space in
debug32.

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