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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject:  Re: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive
Date:  Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:36:37 +0200
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* Ralph Hempel (Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:31:10 -0400)
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > Ralph Hempel wrote:
> >> I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
> >> drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
> >> my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
> > 
> > Why is that?
> 
> Creating, wand writing files is much slower on a FLASH
> drive than on a hard disk. Not a big problem for a few
> files here and there, but if I'm compiling gcc and binutils for
> cross compiling to an ARM (for example) it might be MUCH
> slower.

Then simply don't compile in your home directory...

Thorsten


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