Lib change leads to larger executables

[Bill Baxter]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> That's not a good argument. ld is pig slow?  I'm sorry but I don't get
>> that.  It works; it works as intended; and, strangely, I don't hear 
>> people
>> complain about its apparent lack of speed.
>> So what if a linker is blitzingly fast. If it's outdated and broken,
>> there's not much to get excited about.  I'll choose the slow working one
>> any day.
> 
> I've find OPTLINK to hang and crash a lot when linking the wxD programs
> on Windows XP. But every time I try to reproduce it, it goes away... :-(
> 
> So now I just run the "make" like three times in a row, and it usually
> succeeds in building everything. And yeah, it's rather fast in doing so.
> 
> But I prefer the MinGW gdc/ld, since it works the first time but slower?
> (well that and that I have problems getting DMC to work with SDL / GL)

I see hangs occasionally even for small programs.  Even on single files 
compiled with dmd -run.  Every time it happens if I Ctrl-C kill it and 
run the same command again, everything is fine.  Frequency is maybe like 
1 out of every 50 compiles.

--bb