From:	mapson AT mapson DOT com (mapson)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP on a 386
Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 1997 23:35:14 GMT
Organization:	Yale University
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I have DJGPP on a pentium at work, a 486 at home, and yesterday I put
it on a spare 10-year old 386 with just under 900k memory. Everything
seems great, except for one thing- compile times on the things are...
well, let's just say much longer than I can possibly stand. To test
it, I compiled a 800 line program... 2.5 hours later I came back, it
was still chugging. So I killed it, tried compiling a "Hello
world!"... still, took about 5 minutes!

I expected maybe 10 minutes on the first program, since it takes under
30 seconds on my 486. 

Just curious, what is it about this 386 system that makes it so much
slower than just the slower clock speed would indicate? The lack of
memory? It certainly runs the compiled programs at the expected rate.

In fact, a testiment to DJGPP and CWSDPMI- the computer had the
*original* DOS on it from 10 years ago, and ran this voxel program 
(http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/logan-bret/av/simufo.zip)
just fine, no obvious glitches. I was amazed.

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