From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject: Re: rhide compile..
Date: 1 Mar 2000 13:55:43 GMT
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel (kalum AT crosswinds DOT net) wrote:
: Using your example if you can allocate 64mb just allocate a 64mb! smartdrv
: with write caching enabled and after the first compile all the other
: compiles will almost certainly be ligtning fast, since after the first
: compile the disk cache would have cached all the gcc.exe and librarys etc.
: 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?

Alas SMARTDRV seems only to be able to use 37MiB of memory to cache.

Which options to it gives the maximum of write caching?


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