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From:	elmar DOT vogt AT rzmail DOT uni-erlangen DOT de (Elmar Vogt)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Slowest compilation ever
Date:	7 Feb 1996 08:51:21 GMT
Organization:	LUR, University of Erlangen.
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Message-ID:	<4f9p69$8fd@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

This is not a plea for help, just a note for the curious among you 
out there:

How slow can a DJGPP-compilation get? Say, you have a tiny, tiny 
C++-program of about 50 lines source code, with not much of libraries 
or include-files. You run a 486 at 100MHz, and have 16MB with not 
much of any other software running.

How long can it take- 10 sec? One minute? Five?

Well, yesterday it took me a full 20 minutes... beat that!
Obviously, DJGPP (V2.0) was confused about my memory management, 
because it continuously swapped to disk, and running the compiler 
from a Windows-DOS-box took only a few seconds.
I'll figure it out, I just thought I'd let you know...


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