Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:12:28 +0300
From: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT yars DOT free DOT net>
Message-Id: <199603212012.XAA04411@gemini.yars.free.net>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Faster floppy I/O
Content-Length: 801

> On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Bob Babcock wrote:
>
> > Does this affect ld.exe?  Linking always seems to take a long time,
> > and generates a lot of disk activity (which I don't think is swapping
>
> Maybe.  Unfortunately, no one (AFAIK) have tried to see how does ld
> perform when `fseek' and `ftell' do not discard the buffered portion of
> the file.  I didn't even hear reliable reports that these two functions
> are indeed the cause of slow operation (e.g., profiling ld would be
> nice), or even, for that matter, that ld uses `fseek' heavily.

I'm going soon to add to stdio a flag indicating that ungetc was called for
current buffer, that will allow lseeking in buffered data without
dos calling. Maybe I'll test the new version with ld and report the
results. I just need to download ld sources.