From:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: Optimizing memset/memcpy/strcpy/etc.
17 Feb 1998 14:24:58 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199802172223.RAA08562.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@hardy.bbc.com>
Reply-To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
To:	ian AT cygnus DOT com
Cc:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

>From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian AT cygnus DOT com>
>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:18:25 -0500
>
>>From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
>>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:12:13 GMT
>>
>>Has anyone experimented with the editbin that comes with MSDEV?  It
>>seems to indicate that it will speed up the load time of a DLL:
>>
>I have not used it.  My understanding is that it only makes a
>difference when you have more than one DLL at the same base address.
>That should not happen in a normal cygwin32 app.  When it does happen,
>you can see it happening if you run the program under gdb.

So the way that this "minimizes startup time" is by scanning the binary,
resolving conflicts in .dll base addresses?  I can see how that would
be useful but, you're right, it doesn't help with cygwin32.

cgf

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