Re: Why RosAsm Breaks on a large number of symbols

From: f0dder (f0dder_spicedham_at_flork.dk)
Date: 07/10/04

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:34:08 +0200

    *snip*

    > It is a very dense 7zip archive that does a lot of work unpacking and
    > then ML.EXE and LINK.EXE take a lot of processor time building about
    > 25 meg of libraries. If you run something else while its working, it
    > will get very slow as a background process which is normal. This has
    > nothing to do with the shell procedure and happens without the
    > installer running.
    >
    The sluggishness problem I reported happens while the install.exe process
    sits "idle" in the Sleep(0) + GetExitCodeProcess loop, waiting for the
    makelibs.bat file to finish. This wouldn't be so bad if the sluggishness
    was caused by masm chewing through a lot of files, but the sad thing is
    that this happens while makelibs.bat waits for user input (the "pause"
    batch command.)
    While you might not have noticed this, and even might not be able to
    cause this behaviour on your own system, it's fully reproducable here,
    so it's a *problem*.

    > The install will work even with background priority but it is normal
    > with an installation to not be running other applications at all.
    >
    Most people I know of have (at least) instant messaging, winamp (or other
    media player), (idle) email application, and perhaps a couple web browsers
    open while installing. Especially while installing larger stuff, instead
    of sitting idle staring at the progress bar. Windows is, after all, a
    multitasking OS :)

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