Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/10/22/13:36:08
On Fri, 21 Oct 1994, Kimberley Burchett wrote:
> Given the fact that the C++ compiler seems to crash every time I
> misspell something (quite often, in other words) and the fact that I only
> have 4MB RAM and it's swapping almost continuously, trying to compile a
> program is getting to be very difficult. It will take a minute and a
> half to get to line 150 (after going through 500 lines of #includes or
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> So, since it would seem that most of the time is spent swapping, I'm
> wondering if perhaps increasing SmartDrive's cache size would help.
> Changing from gcc to gccrm helped some - from 2:15 minutes to 1:40 minutes
> (and I used to complain that the C compiler took 20 seconds!). I don't
I think a 1-2M ram disk for swapping will help. Don't use Smartdrive!
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