From: marcel AT eb DOT ele DOT tue DOT nl (Marcel van Loon)
Subject: Slow DJGPP?
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 17:28:27 EET

Some people recently complained:

-- Why is DJGPP so slow?

I had this problem. A simple 'hello world' took minutes to compile. This
improved in a radical way when I configured EMM386 to:

DEVICE = EMM386.EXE on ram 2048.

previously, I only provided for 1024K bytes of EMS. I do not install a 
DPMI host. Seems like DJGPP thrives best on +1.5Mb EMS or something. I
really have no expertise on DOS (I use DJGPP and loads of other utils to
give me a 'UNIX' feel on DOS), so if what I say isn't entirely correct or
relevant, I'm sorry; It did work for me, though!

Hope this helps!

-- 
--- Marcel van Loon
E-Mail: marcel AT eb DOT ele DOT tue DOT nl