Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/18/16:45:38
You've never had the pleasure of compiling Perl 5 on a 486DX/33MHz w/8MB of
RAM have you??? hehe
In article <sCuu3.1497$ei1 DOT 2501 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com>, jventer AT writeme DOT com
says...
>
>Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote in message
>news:37B8292B DOT 174C1175 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com...
>> Johan Venter wrote:
>>
>> > Compileing a simple hello world program took 24 seconds with the
>following
>> > command line:
>> >
>> > gcc test.c -o test.exe
>>
>> What system configuration are you using? Win95/98/NT/DOS? How much
>RAM?
>> Processor speed? If in pure DOS, do you have a RAM disk or disk caching
>> software?
>> I'm using 2.95 and on my machine it doesn't seem to take any longer
>than
>> v2.8.1 if I don't specify "-O2".
>
>I'm running a P166 with 32MB of RAM and Windows 98.
>GCC-2.8.1 was always pretty snappy, even if I compiledwith all the
>optimizations and speed/space trade off options.
>
>GCC-2.95 compiles a lot faster than 2.8.1, but the linking takes ages, as I
>said before, while running "collect2".
>
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