Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/02/21/16:45:46
> Hi, I've been trying to improve on compilation time by making a RAM drive.
Swapping to a RAM drive isn't likely to be any faster than having that memory
directly available, and your timing results show that it is much slower. The
only way a RAM disk can speed things up is if you load programs and include
files from there. I find this helps, but I've got 16MB of memory. The other
question is what CPU type and speed are you using? I'd expect a trivial
program to compile in a few seconds on a 486DX/33, but on a 386SX/16 you
might lose very roughly three factors of two, one from clock rate, one from
CPU type and one from bus width for a total of 8x longer compilations.
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