X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Charles Sandmann Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Huge differences in compilation time between gcc/gpp Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:13:12 CDT Organization: Rice University, Houston TX Lines: 8 Message-ID: <3cb480b8.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: clio.rice.edu X-Trace: joe.rice.edu 1018462460 9484 128.42.105.3 (10 Apr 2002 18:14:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rice DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Apr 2002 18:14:20 GMT X-NewsEditor: ED-1.5.9 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > Is P166 too old for C++, then ? (with MSVC++ I can compile C++ in few > seconds) It's more likely an issue of memory than CPU speed. C++ compiles with GCC 3.x seem to take a minimum of 16MB of free memory. Try to make sure go32-v2 shows this much free (not page or swap). GCC 2.x uses less for C++ compiles.