Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/18/22:00:44
Or compiling allegro 3 on a 386/20/6 laptop...oh the hour that I wasted.
I admit though, you do learn the value of your K6-2 in that experience.
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Haley wrote:
> 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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