From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d87a073fea49d80c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John Magness Subject: Re: Objectada link time Date: 2000/10/02 Message-ID: <39D8C6DD.78B6D234@swbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 676703244 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39D46B13.BEFF4288@cadwin.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@swbell.net X-Trace: nnrp1.sbc.net 970507877 209.184.83.52 (Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:31:17 CDT) Organization: N.O.Y.B. MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jmagness@swbell.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:31:17 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nicolas Brunot wrote: > Consulting FAQ on Aonix web site, I found the following : > > >>5.My compiler seems slow. How can I speed it up? > >>... > >>Sometimes users report a slow build time. Usually, much of the build > time > >>occurs during the link phase, not during the compilation phase, a > reflection of > >>the architecture of the Microsoft linker. > > Comparing with Rational Apex which also include the Microsoft linker, > there is a enormous difference. > for an application of about 15 Mo, linked from about 1200 Ada units : Mo? is this megabytes of object code? What are the units? > > Apex link is about 1 mn > Objectada link reaches 10 mn ... > > So there should be not only a microsoft linker problem here. > What platforms produced these numbers? The last line might lead a person to think that the same platform MS/Intel was used. A person familiar with the internals of Apex might be able to throw some light on this. > > Has anybody found a solution to this kind of problem ? > Thanks for any information This is a curious situation.... John