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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: decreasing program loadup time
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 21:00:47 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> Unfortunately, it is large (to me) -- around 85K COFF.  Add on top of that 
> the overhead of GO32 loading, and you have unpalatable speed. 

A known issue with V1.x - load times are greatly improved with V2 since
there is no GO32 to load, memory is not zeroed, and the image is read from
the disk in large chunks instead of 4Kb at a time.  Also, if you use -s
when you link, you may find the actual executable code is smaller when
the debug information is removed.