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From: | aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: slow dos, fast win95 linking ? |
Date: | Tue, 31 Dec 1996 03:44:09 GMT |
Organization: | Southwest Missouri State University |
Lines: | 17 |
Message-ID: | <32c88b07.4672540@ursa.smsu.edu> |
References: | <32C8721B DOT 7C85 AT fred DOT net> |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:53:31 -0500, mlarch AT fred DOT net wrote: >With a rough timmer I got 78.6 seconds in dos >compared to 11.5 seconds in a dos window under >win95. What causes this ? In both cases TMPDIR >points to a 16meg ram disk. Under dos qemm is >serving up memory. The *.o files passed to make >total less than 8k. GCC spends most of its time loading the various compilation/link stages from disk. The RAM disk probably won't help a whole lot unless you move gcc and all its required accessories to the RAM disk. Win95 caches the executables, so has access to them much quicker than DOS does.
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