Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/15/17:39:38
John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote:
: With only 8 MB of RAM, you probably can't afford to increase your cache
: too much, nor install a ramdrive, so you pretty much have to live with
: this overhead.
:
: HOWEVER, once you get past the initial cost of loading the tools, DJGPP
: is faster than any other 32-bit compiler with the same code. Try
: comparing the compilation speeds of a fifty-thousand line project
: between the two compilers, and you'll see the difference. "Hello,
: world"-type programs are really poor examples for any kind of performace
: testing. ;)
OK, I stocked up my computer to 24 MB, installed a 4MB RAMDRIVE, 12MB
SMARTDRV, got the latest versions of everything (the ...1 revisions).
It compiles quite fast now, in any case it would be nice to have the
'precompiled-header-option' which could be an valuable improvement of gcc.
Anyone tried this to implement in gcc? I compiled some large stuff with
the rhide ide, which is really nice: it looks so borland ;-), but I guess
that user support will be 10x better than borland double trouble
(pay money -> get problems).
Now I will get back to djgpp and try some wired stuff (hard interrupts,
where borland makes a really bad figure if you use 386 code and longs:
they do not save eax, ebx,..., you gain really nice problems).
Thanks
Jurgen
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