Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 09:59:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Dominique Micollet <dmicolet AT u-bourgogne DOT fr>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in stubify.c
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On 4 Jul 1996, Dominique Micollet wrote:

> Today, I think that using a ramdisk which DJGPP is not a good idea because
> the consumed memory is lost for DJGPP : the program will swap more frequently.
> Am I right on this last point ?

No.  GCC compiles programs by invoking 4 programs in sequence which pass 
the processed file to one another via temporary files.  If you tell GCC 
to put these temporary files on a RAM drive, the compilation will run 
faster.

Of course, if you don't have a memory-abundant (more than 8MB) machine, 
you shouldn't install a RAM drive.  Check out the system configuration 
guidelines in section 3.8 of the DJGPP FAQ (available as v2/faq200b.zip 
from the same place you get DJGPP) for more details.