Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 15:32:03 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: jde AT Unify DOT Com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Performance


> I notice a lot of disk chatter during that time, but I can`t figure
> out what it`s doing. (I don`t THINK it`s swapping, with 9M RAM...)

Reading your sources, for starters ;-) and also the includes.

> Is this performance good/average/poor for this setup?

Seems OK.  I like to add about 1M of cache, and given a choice I'd
move the libraries and linker back to the hard drive if I needed more
RAM space.  They're used less frequently than anything else.  I rely
on a disk cache rather than ramdisk for the compiler passes and
includes.  It's slower the first time through, but on the rest of the
files it's a little faster than a ramdrive.

> Have I missed anything REALLY obvious?
> (It`s the disk access that`s confusing me)

includes are still on the hard drive.  Make sure your PATH hits the
ramdrive before the hard drive.