Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:5676 From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: RAMdisk (was: Bug in stubify.c) Date: 5 Jul 1996 01:27:28 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4rhr20$181v@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: fb0401.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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 -- Alexander Lehmann, | "On the Internet, alex AT hal DOT rhein-main DOT de (plain, MIME, NeXT) | nobody knows lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (plain) | you're a dog." !!CHANGED!!