Date:	Thu, 03 Feb 1994 18:51:56 -0500 (EST)
From:	JMILLER AT CHESS DOT EISC DOT UTOLEDO DOT EDU
Subject:	Is it _always_ this slow
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization:	Edison Industrial Systems Center

A large disk cache is a better way to go to speed up compiling and linking
but this reduces the amount of memory available for the compiler. Just how
big to make the cache is difficult to answer but an excellent solution is
available. A shareware cache program named combi available from simtel in
/pub/msdos/dskutl will use available extended memory for caching and 
release memory when requested. It also provides a RAM disk with the same 
memory! Compile  and link times are significantly reduced with combi with
75% reduction in compile time with 16 meg. systems. Please note that I have
no involvement with this software except for evaluating its performance.

Hope this helps!

John Miller

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