Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:14:17 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199709110114.VAA25662@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199709092239.IAA08502@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
	(leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au)
Subject: Re: fread slowstart
Precedence: bulk


> Consider it a figure of speech - not a vote... I checked through a lot of
> my old code last night and found that about half of my headers/.c files
> are around 2-3k, which means the whole file would be loaded in one hit...
> The rest of the files were proportionally larger....

Better consideration would be gcc.  The compilers load source files
all at once (some of gcc's sources are huge), but the linker seeks
around a lot gathering up the various sections of the objects.  It
should benefit from this new feature more than anything else.