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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:39:57 CST
- From: <U20565@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92325.233957U20565@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- Subject: Want opinion on OPTILINK from SLR Systems
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- Well I have never really had to compile any lengthy programs until recently.
- To make matters even messier I have started to compile fairly medium sized
- C++ programs with MSC and their LINKER.
-
- From my personal experiments I never had problems with link times. 1) I
- really didn't do any serious C++ at home 2) Until recently C was the only
- programming language I used. However now I'm at a professional setting where
- larger C++ programs are being compiled and the linking process takes forever
- and a day. Like 5 minutes.
-
- Ridiculous. I have seens advertisements for OPTILINK and even recall reading
- a story where it was described that linking all the code for Word for Windows
- during its development at Microsoft could take an hour or so. Conversely with
- OPTILINK it took minutes. However Microsoft would have nothing to do with a
- linker which it had not developed.
-
- My question to all, have you dealt with OPTILINK and what was the difference?
- Namley before... e.g. 10 minutes, after... 2 minutes. It is ridiculous when
- you change one source code module and everything then has to be relinked.
- Speaking of which, if memory serves ILINK is supposed to solve this problem.
- (In fact it just occured to me as I posted this). After consulting the
- "Environment and Tools" volume in MSC 7.0 it isn't even mentioned. Wait don't
- tell me, it's mentioned in the supplemental text files.... still BS.
-
- Anyway, I would like to know about OPTILINK nonetheless. I also have seen
- another product advertised, BLINKER. If you have experience/opinions on this
- product it would also be appreciated if you passed them my way.
-
- Please respond directly,
- Mario Pacheco
-