From:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject:	Re: what can link.exe do that cygwin32-ld can't ?
14 Jul 1997 10:10:52 -0700 :
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In article <01BC9047 DOT 8464FD60 AT sos>,
Sergey Okhapkin  <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>    and if so, does this fix makeing .reloc dll's & exe's
>>    with B18?
>>
>> Doesn't that have more to do with running ld and dlltool multiple
>> times?
>
>Three-pass linking is very slow :-( For example, while building cygwin.dll 
>with full debug info, every ld pass tooks more than 1 minute on my P133/32M 
>NT4.0. The ld.exe process takes about 10M memory while running! It's 
>difficult to debug the stuff with long build times...

That's for sure.  I've been spending a fair amount of time with cygwin
stuff and the last link step on my dual P90 system is maddeningly slow.
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