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Re: (C++) High memory usage with templates
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 05:45:41PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> Linking speed is a separate problem. I suspect that -fsquangle will
> speed up linking of large programs, because it substantially reduces
> the size of symbols, and the linker has to page all of the symbols into
> memory. (You'd have to use -fsquangle to build your library as well).
I expect using references to debugging info in other files instead of
copying it would yield a much better improvement in link times.
-- Jamie