From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: slow dos, fast win95 linking ?
Date:	Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:08:28 -0800
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mlarch AT fred DOT net wrote:
> 
> With a rough timmer I got 78.6 seconds in dos
> compared to 11.5 seconds in a dos window under
> win95. What causes this ? In both cases TMPDIR
> points to a 16meg ram disk. Under dos qemm is
> serving up memory. The *.o files passed to make
> total less than 8k.

78 seconds?!?!  That's terrible speed - how much RAM do you have and how
much is left in your DOS session before running the linker?  It looks
like you are running with so little free memory that the linker must
constantly swap itself to disk.

Try typing 'go32-v2' from the DOS prompt and post what it reports, both
in and out of Win95.

Also look in the FAQ (v2/faq202b.zip), chapter 7, for the full story on
compilation and linking speed, and possible causes of slowdowns.

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