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| Side note on linkers (Re: machine independent executables) harvard!seismo!geac!daveb (1987-08-21) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 21 Aug 87 14:08:54 GMT |
| References: | <678@ima.ISC.COM> |
| From: | harvard!seismo!geac!daveb (Dave Collier-Brown) |
| Organization: | The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. |
In article <678@ima.ISC.COM> bct <bct@its63b.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> I was involved with the production of compilers related to the MUSS system.
>...It was not advertised to the users that the compilers were not generating
>native code, and the linker was doing a little more than linking.
The same technique was used recently by Dave Hansen at Arizona, when his
group realized that the compilers & assemblers both had partial resolvers
which were duplicated in the linker. And that linking was really little
more than a merge-sort.
I tried the same trick and the linker ran faster than the system
linker i was using...
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