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From: devitto AT s7604030 DOT ferndown DOT ate DOT slb DOT com (Dom De Vitto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Slowest compilation ever
Date: 19 Feb 1996 18:00:51 GMT
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On 7 Feb 1996 08:51:21 GMT, Elmar Vogt (elmar DOT vogt AT rzmail DOT uni-erlangen DOT de) wrote:
: Well, yesterday it took me a full 20 minutes... beat that!
: Obviously, DJGPP (V2.0) was confused about my memory management, 
: because it continuously swapped to disk, and running the compiler 
: from a Windows-DOS-box took only a few seconds.
: I'll figure it out, I just thought I'd let you know...

I tried compiling a windows app with my 386DX25 & 4MB and BC4.5 - it took
*** 65 minutes *** !!

I upgraded to 8Mb and the time dropped to 3.5 mins... ;)
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