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- From: JOHN.OLSEN@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Olsen, John D,APD)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Subject: Re2: Can't wait for ETO 10
- Message-ID: <728063046.2358303@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:26:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Organization: AppleLink Gateway
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- Hi,
-
- It is not incremental build capability per se -- it is incremental _LINK_
- capability. The idea the way I understand it is the iLinker builds a large
- database of your symbols and other pertinent info during the "first" link. It
- then leverages off that info for future links. They have a problem though -- it
- does not produce .sym info during the iLink so they are fixing (read hacking?)
- up a version of SourceBug that will allow it to read the database info so that
- we can still do source level debugs. The link time gets down to something like
- 30 seconds now. You still use the "real" linker for your final build -- the
- iLinker is for dev purposes only. (This is the tool they talked about at WWDC
- 92).
-
- I hope I have told the story correctly.
-
- John.Olsen
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