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From: bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.8] update to NetBSD-current
Date: 18 Jul 1993 21:36:19 -0000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney: +61-2-837-1183 V.42bis
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martin@bi-link.owl.de (Martin Husemann) writes:

>Is tsort realy neccessary this days? I build my clib (due to the same

tsort might give better locality, so less paging and less TLB misses.
Remember that the linker is still `old days' technology.

In practice I like to use `ar r' on an existing library, letting new
modules fall to the end.  Misordering a few modules probably won't
matter.
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au