From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject:	Re: rhide compile..
Date:	2 Mar 2000 09:24:13 GMT
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Damian Yerrick (DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM) wrote:
: On 1 Mar 2000 13:55:43 GMT, eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
: wrote:

: >Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel (kalum AT crosswinds DOT net) wrote:
: >: Using your example if you can allocate 64mb just allocate a 64mb! smartdrv
: >: with write caching enabled and after the first compile all the other
: >: compiles will almost certainly be ligtning fast, since after the first
: >: compile the disk cache would have cached all the gcc.exe and librarys etc.
: >: And there will be more efficient memory usage as there is no need to
: >: allocate memory as in a ramdisk for the whole tool chain, for how many of
: >: the tools do we actually use?
: >
: >Alas SMARTDRV seems only to be able to use 37MiB of memory

: That's all you'll need, even for about the largest sources.

Not if I want to test Kalum's statement.


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