To: DJGPP List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: wow.  is it _always_ this slow?
Reply-To: pgf AT Cayman DOT COM
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 94 13:08:27 EST
From: Paul Fox <pgf AT Cayman DOT COM>


is there likely something wrong with my config?  i have an HP OmniBook 300
(4Meg of RAM (20Mhz AMD386SLX); not everyone's idea of a big powerful
development machine, but my DX2/66 runs linux, so here i am.  i just did a
compile (of a single C file) and a link (of perhaps 45 .o files), using
djgpp111 (with the 2.5.4 compiler, i believe).  i've applied the first
maintenance release, but not the second, since from the contents it didn't
look like it applied to me.  (i use C only, no C++.)  anyway, my compile and
link took 23 minutes!  i have a ram disk configured.  i use himem.sys
to manage extended memory.  there is no expanded memory manager.  the
application that i link comes to almost 1.2 meg.  (i have -g turned on.)

should i be surprised at this speed?

(i also use Watcom 9.0 sometimes.  it's _way_ faster.)

paul


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