Sun Visual WorkShop C++ Overview

Test Changes Faster

Once a debugging session is completed, you can rebuild your application using the incremental linker. You can test the changes to your application more quickly because the incremental linker reduces the time necessary to relink an application. Only the changed .o files are linked into the previous executable to create a new executable file. Using the incremental linker, the time it takes to rebuild an application after a change is proportional to the magnitude of the change rather than to the total size of the application.