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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 04:15:30 GMT
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 04:15:30 GMT
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:14:10 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
>
>> I don't think that this will have anydifference because if you have a
>> samrtdrv (disk cache) with write caching (delayed writing) enabled, the
>> disk writes should be as low as possible (maybe even no disk writes as all
>> the temp files as deleted in the end!)
>
>SmartDrv flushes its buffers when a program exits

It flushes its write caches when a program exits _to command.com_.
Even this can be disabled; see the Smartdrv docs.

>And because SmartDrv flushes buffers on program exit, a RAM disk is
>better with pipes as well.

See above.

>The problem is that with SmartDrv, you don't have the same kind of
>control on what is cached and what's not, it is entirely up to
>SmartDrv.

And Smartdrv is Smarter than you.

>For example, if some program calls the `sync' function, SmartDrv
>flushes and empties all of its buffers, and forgets about any gcc.exe
>it was caching.

Or does it only commit its write cache?

>> And there will be more efficient memory usage as there is no need to
>> allocate memory as in a ramdisk for the whole tool chain, for how many of
>> the tools do we actually use?
>
>If you have enough memory installed, this is not an issue.

If you have Windows 9x installed, long filenames can be an issue.

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