Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:45:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: FYI: speed of Allegro/DJGPP
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bill Currie wrote:

> I can only agree with this wholeheartedly.  My 386-33 with 12M of 
> memory (3-4 used for cache/ramdisk) beat the pants off a 486-50 with 
> 8M (same config otherwise). Yes, I know the faq says not to use a 
> ramdisk with <16M, but I found that a 2.5M ramdisk with (compressed) 
> gcc, cc1, cc1plus, cpp, and as (ld?) leaving ~.75M for temp space 
> made a significant diference and I could have a small cache (.5-1M).

8MB is a borderline case.  The FAQ says to not use RAM drive for
machines with 5-8MB, but for those with more than 8MB it suggests a
2MB RAM disk.  With careful setup, a 8MB machine could well afford a
small RAM drive and get a performance boost.