why are object libraries stored in archive files?

Erik E. Fair fair at dual.UUCP
Fri Apr 13 18:32:23 AEST 1984


Well, for one thing there's less filesystem overhead. It is expensive under
the Bell Filesystem to successively open, read and close lots of files.

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