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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:01:11 +0800
From: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
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> : Joe Wright wrote:
> : i am running a dx-4/75 with 16 mb (2Mb smartdrv). i never felt the need
> : to measure how long it takes to compile "hello world" but i would have
> : felt it if it took 10 seconds. so this is probably a problem with your
> : plain dos setup as opposed to win 95 because win 95 automatically sets
> : up 32 bfa and 32 bda.
 
> It takes only two seconds on my 486DX4-120. I think that you have to
> configure TMPDIR environment variable to a RAM disk to get better
> performance.

Its because Win95 uses all available memory for a cache...basically a
more
advance smartdrv already built in to 95. If you run smartdrv, you will
generall increase performace by huge amounts under DOS...

Leathal.