Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:11:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: bnu2951b.zip's ar is slow
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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:20:59 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> What's up with ar from bnu2951b.zip? On my 386, ar-ing libc with ar
> from bnu281b.zip takes 246 s and ar from bnu2951b.zip takes 16406
> s. And that's not a typo.

How much memory does that 386 screamer have?  Is it possible that the
large performance hit is due to paging because of the larger memory
required by bnu2951b, rather than to actually slower code?