Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 12:04:17 +1200
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: help speeding up DJGPP under Win 95
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Guess wrote:
> 
> -> I am running DJGPP under windows 95 on my Pentium 133 with 40 megs of
> -> RAM.  I know that GCC is not loaded into memory automatically like
> -> other compilers, but I would like to know if there is a way to store
> -> it in memory so it will compile faster, please let me know if this is
> -> in the FAQ, or atleast a way to do it.  Many thanks
> I'm running DJGPP with 16 mb of RAM...
> I gave smartdrive 4 mb
> and set up a 4 mb ram disk, and pointed the tmpdir to it.
> It compiles a hello world program in like 3-5 seconds with
> almost no hard disk interaction... it's cool :>

Try also making a bin directory on your ramdisk, adding it to your path,
and copying gcc,cc1(whatever you use most), as, plus any others you use
frequenly.  Makes a big difference for me with a 386-33 (700kB/s from
the HD).

Bill
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