There was a "Speedup" application that someone has IIRC that helped
earlier, also if you move your mouse around in the MPLab screen that
helps a lot - I don't have the URL handy & am in a time crunch just now,
catching up on old mail in between disasters today <G>  I think this one
"fell through the cracks" somehow.

  Does it noticeably speed up your compile time, Norm, if you keep
wiggling the mouse constantly, on the MPLab window while MPASM/MPLink
are running?

  (Running on too little sleep yet today, today's a "Take the day off to
survive!" day <G>)

  Mark

Norm wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am presently using MPLAB (running WIN98 on a P166) and a PICMASTER to
> develop software for the 17C756. All of my modules are written in assembly
> only.  I am using MPASM and MPLINK (from within MPLAB) to assemble and link
> my 10 modules.  However, to complete a full build, it takes MPASM about 90
> seconds to assemble all files, and then it takes MPLINK about 30 seconds to
> link these modules together after assembly.  Having done most of my
> assembling and linking in the DOS world (where it typically takes less than
> 5 seconds to complete), this 2 minute build time unacceptable to me (my
> assembled code thus far is less than 1K).
>
> Can anybody recommend a third-party applicaton or offer suggestions to speed
> up this process (aside from upgrading my PC or changing to a stable OS)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Norm Siegel