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From:	lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
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Subject:	Re: RAMdisk (was: Bug in stubify.c)
Date:	5 Jul 1996 01:27:28 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Thu, 4 Jul 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

: > disadvantage is that anything in the simulated disk drive created by the
: > ramdisk is lost when you turn off or reboot your computer

: Another disadvantage (that frequently goes overlooked) is that ramdisk 
: usually is quite small and can be easily filled with large temporary 
: files, after which point programs start mysteriously to fail...

Especially since the temporary asm file generated by cc1 is
considerably larger than the source code and the resulting object
file. (well, last time I checked, the standard ramdrive supported up
to 4MB, it you have much memory, it may actually speed up things a
bit). Of course, if DOS would support pipes for real, we could just
use the -pipe option of gcc and save a lot of tmp storage, but it
doesn't.


bye, Alexander

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