Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 17:41:31 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc: jde AT Unify DOT Com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Performance

> 5. To test whether you are swapping, set go32tmp to point to the ram disk and
>    see whether disk activity decreases.  If still in doubt, look for an
>    erased swap file on the ram disk after the compile completes.

This reminded me of something - go32 *always* swaps out when it
system(), which gcc does a lot.  If you set GO32TMP to the ramdrive,
it will swap gcc out to there instead.

Also, you could try to find a 16-bit version of the gcc driver
(gcc-rm*.exe) which doesn't use go32 and thus won't swap.