Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 1994 18:35:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Jason Burrell <jburrell AT crl DOT com>
To:	Rob DeWitte <dewitte AT chasma DOT harvard DOT edu>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: ramdrive

On Mon, 19 Sep 1994, Rob DeWitte wrote:

> version of djgpp.  It works very well.  Compilation takes a long time
> though, because of hard disk access.  I tried using a ramdrive, but
> got no successs, and cpp.exe could not access d:\.  ANy suggestions?
> 
> 	Also, how big should the ramdrive be?
> 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

DJGPP is probably accessing the hard drive so much because its lacking 
memory. You'd probably do better without the ram drive, as the ram drive 
eats memory. Get more RAM. 

When I had 2MB RAM, I tried to compile a "Hello World" program using 
DJGPP. I aborted the compilation after 68 minutes. This January I 
upgraded to 4MB RAM and tried to compile the same program. It took 30 
seconds.

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