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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:32:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: Mingw32 discussion list at eGroups <mingw32 AT egroups DOT com>,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: (beta) Must faster dlltool for cygwin/mingw
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I have a test version of dlltool that I'd like to folks to test out. This
one doesn't create any files and builds everything in memory. 

The performance increase on Linux/ext2fs is quite significant; on MS
filesystems, and for large implibs, it's a few orders of magnitude
faster. The performance increase really shows when you're building an
import library with say 10k symbols (eg., wxWindows implib contains
~8.5k symbols, and that can kill your FAT filesystem, or at least bring
it to its knees). 

The code is adapted from DJ's pe-dll, tested on my local tree. However,
expect bugs and misfeatures. Same command line options as the normal
dlltool.

Cygwin:

ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/snapshots/dlltool/

Mingw:

ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/dlltool/

for both dlltool.exe and dlltool.c.

Regards,
Mumit



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