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To: | babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu |
Subject: | Re: RAM drive |
Cc: | raymond AT hef DOT kun DOT nl, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Reply-To: | pgf AT Cayman DOT COM |
Date: | Mon, 21 Feb 94 18:25:42 EST |
From: | Paul Fox <pgf AT Cayman DOT COM> |
> > 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 what about the TMP directory? the readme (one of them, don't remember which) states explicitly that putting tmp into a ram drive is a win. paul
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