-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-03-03 at 12:17 -0800, John R. Sowden wrote:
A while back this thread mentioned Borland's 'Smart Linking' in one of its Pascal compilers, but not the current (at the time) C compiler). As this process only makes sense to minimize program size, therefore decreasing load time, and probably run time, as more RAM is available, it this process being used by today's current compilers?
If not, why not? Is Borland holding the rights, like the tire and oil companies buying and closing the trains, or Intuit's buying 'In House Accountant', then shelving it.?
No, no. Free Pascal uses the same or similar technique. I don't know how they do it, but in Borland case they could do it because TPascal did not use the "standard" linker and .obj file structure with extra information, but a different one (.tpu) designed for the purpose. Their C compiler used a standard linker (almost), so it didn't have smart linking. On the other hand... I doubt the technique is usefull with OOP. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF6hzGtTMYHG2NR9URAkAXAJ4t+RY+Hi34BaOLYsa9q9XgYc7LYQCeI4OM 3sUrFkhIzTR4ylZ+KwHZYIQ= =tO8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org