Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 13:23:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Fábio Diales da Rocha <crismafabio AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE - compliments and complaints
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Fábio Diales da Rocha wrote:

>     3. And last, but certanly not least - it takes an unnecessary ammount of
> time to compile because it spends half the time writting and reading
> something to disk. Example: if just try to run grep (i don't have it) it
> takes about 15 seconds before a simple "Bad command or file name". This is
> extremelly annoying. Believe it or not i've read a book in the interims
> rhide takes to call gcc twice.

I'd guess that your system is not set for optimal DJGPP performance.  Did 
you see the system-configuration advice in section 3.9 of the DJGPP FAQ 
list (v2/faq210b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP)?

If the FAQ advice doesn't help, post your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.