richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN) (02/06/91)
If the linker runs out of memory, it uses a virtual memory scheme and this can be quite slow. As you've found, a ram disk helps. Another slant is to use a memory management program such as 386max or qemm to make 'upper memory blocks' available. This refers to memory above the 640K boundary, but below 1meg and not used by ROM or video buffers. LINK can take advantage of these. Richard Gillmann Microsoft Languages