Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:33:06 +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 Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Bill Currie wrote:

> cc1, cc1plus, cpp and as leaves me with ~600 k from TMPDIR.  For me, 
> this is almost always enough.

600K for TMPDIR is only enough for *very* short sources.  When the RAM
drive fills, gcc aborts very ungracefully, and with error messages
that don't always make sense (sometimes it says ``virtual memory
exhausted'', sometimes just ``Abort!'', sometimes it SIGSEGVs.  Such a
small TMPDIR requires a lot of vigilance.

> The problem 
> with the disk cache (IMHO) is cc1 and cc1plus always fill it up 
> killing the cached header files.

People seldom use both cc1 and cc1plus at the same time.