From: eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com
To: bram AT nuson DOT nl
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:33:49 +0200
Subject: Pipes (Was: Re: FYI: speed of Allegro/DJGPP)
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On 10/27/97 2:01:25 PM Bram Stolk  wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Elliott Oti wrote:
>
>> IMO an important bottleneck in the speed of gcc is the fact that the
>> preprocessor, compiler, assembler and linker are all separate programs
>> that communicate via temp. files, making disk IO speed the bottleneck.
>
>This is definately NOT a gcc bottleneck.
>It is a DJGPP bottleneck.
>
>Gcc on a proper OS (read: UNIX) supports the -pipe flag.
>Check out the gcc man pages.
1. There is a workaround for DJGPP - using RAM Disk. See the DJGPP FAQ.
2. AFAIK , Cygwin32 (from cygnus) and Mingw32 do support the -pipe option.
    The use the Win32 API pipe support.

Eyal.