Duncan Coutts
Linking in HSbase.o directly is *very* slow. I don't know enough about linking to know why.
The usual way to slow a linker down is to put all the files concerned on an NFS-mounted filesystem (as opposed to a local disk). The usual way to speed one up is to find a memory disk and put all the files there. For example, FreeBSD often puts /tmp in a memory disk. If you have plenty of RAM, all accesses to /tmp are to memory. Only if you're low on RAM, do the fiel accesses actually hit a physical disk. I think Linux has memory disks too. (There's also RAM disks but those are different beasts. If I understand them correctly, they cannot be swapped out to disk.) -- Alastair Reid alastair@reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk Reid Consulting (UK) Limited http://www.reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk/alastair/