From: libolt AT goodnet DOT com (Mike McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: help speeding up DJGPP under Win 95
Date: 10 Mar 1997 15:15:06 -0700
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thanks for everyone's help, I increased the amount of memory that the
dos box uses and it compiles faster now.

>Mike McLean wrote:
>> 
>> I am running DJGPP under windows 95 on my Pentium 133 with 40 megs of
>> RAM.  I know that GCC is not loaded into memory automatically like
>> other compilers, but I would like to know if there is a way to store
>> it in memory so it will compile faster, please let me know if this is
>> in the FAQ, or atleast a way to do it.  Many thanks
>
>Hey, what a speed do you expect?? For me is running in a DOS-box
>under W95 already faster than in raw DOS (and that's also the
>only reason for me to use W95). W95 has a very good disk cache,
>which will remember in most cases also the executables in the
>cache and so in the RAM.
>
>But you can use also under W95 a RAM-drive, but please compare
>the speed (with or without RAM-drive) and you will see, that
>there is no visible different (under W95).
>
>Robert
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