To:	DJGPP List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: wow. is it _always_ this slow?
Reply-To:	pgf AT Cayman DOT COM
Date:	Mon, 07 Feb 94 15:06:52 EST
From:	Paul Fox <pgf AT Cayman DOT COM>

Thanks for all the suggestions regarding speeding up my wimpy little
notebook.

Most of you suggested i make sure i have enough memory available.  There
certainly seems to be -- about 3meg of XMS, and about 500K of conventional.

I've started using a dynamic disk-cache/ramdisk combo called "combi" -- i
got combi113.zip from oak.oakland.edu.  seems real slick (although the disk
doesn't shut off when i'm running on batteries -- i've emailed the author
to see if there's a fix.), and my compile times have improved somewhat. 
still, a full build of my program (45 .c files) takes maybe 8 minutes under
linux on my dx2/66 with 8meg, and about 40 minutes on my Omnibook.  i guess
i can live with it -- i've also started doing "ld -r" of most of the .o's,
and then linking the result with the specific one or two .o files i'm
working on.  this reduces the usual link time.

i've seen reference to archives of traffic on this list -- how do i get at
the archives?  there was no mention of them in the intro-to-the-list
message i got when i joined...

paul fox, pgf AT cayman DOT com

p.s.  i realize most of the folks on this list are probably emacs types,
but i've just released a new copy of my editor, called vile -- it's
available in djgpp- compiled form (or source form, of course) from
ftp.cayman.com, in pub/vile.  it's a pretty mature/robust vi-workalike,
based originally long long ago on uemacs, so it has multiple
buffers/windows etc.  even if you don't want to use it, i figured you might
want to know why i've been asking all these djgpp questions...  :-)

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