Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/30/04:46:44
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bill Currie wrote:
> I can only agree with this wholeheartedly. My 386-33 with 12M of
> memory (3-4 used for cache/ramdisk) beat the pants off a 486-50 with
> 8M (same config otherwise). Yes, I know the faq says not to use a
> ramdisk with <16M, but I found that a 2.5M ramdisk with (compressed)
> gcc, cc1, cc1plus, cpp, and as (ld?) leaving ~.75M for temp space
> made a significant diference and I could have a small cache (.5-1M).
8MB is a borderline case. The FAQ says to not use RAM drive for
machines with 5-8MB, but for those with more than 8MB it suggests a
2MB RAM disk. With careful setup, a 8MB machine could well afford a
small RAM drive and get a performance boost.
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