Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:12:07 +0200 (IST)
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> > > Does someone still have ld 2.8.1 installed to run a comparison?
> 
> Yes I do, and both take 2-3 s on a pretty fast machinve (PII 450MHz,
> 112MiB memory for DJGPP).

If the same operation takes the same time on a Pentium with more
memory, then I'd say it's either paging or some alignment-related
issue.  The latter seems less plausible, since alignment is not
supposed to cause such large differences.