Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/09/15/01:41:07
On Wed, 14 Sep 1994, Francesc Guasch-Ortiz wrote:
> I've been testing djgpp in two computers : a 486 DX 50 and a 486 DX 25, both
> with 4 Megs of RAM, and both give veeeery slow compilation times.
> I'd like to know if the Ram is the main reason for the slow times.
Depends, if it seems like its swaping a lot to disk, most likely, Yes.
> If it is what is the next step ?
A) Go through all that your loading in config.sys and autoexec.bat.
Strip it down do the bare minimum. i.e. unload SmartDrv, etc. I
wouldn't worry about loading things high since the amount of
conventional ram doesn't make that much of a difference.
B) Get more ram.
> Will it go faster with 6 Megs, 8 , or maybe i gotta upgrade to 16 ?
Most likely, Yes. I had 4 and it swaped a fair amount, after upgrading
to 8, it hardly ever hit the disk.
> (with other compilers the same program goes very quick)
That's because they're not "special". :)))
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