From: burger AT Mailer DOT Uni-Marburg DOT DE (Christian Burger)
Subject: speed of djgpp/gcc
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 12:00:32 +22311043 (CES)
Organization: University of Marburg, Germany

   Several people said that djgpp/gcc is slow due to swapping to the
hard disk. Note, that somewhere in the contrib directory there is a
real mode gcc which does not suffer from this problem. It can be
compiled with TC in the tiny model to some 40k so that swapping is not
necessary. 
   You can, however, link with Ralf Brown's spawn libs so that gcc will
swap to ems, xms, or ramdisk. This also has the advantage that you get
a sane system() which returns the exit status of the shell command.
This is necessary if you want to run your a.out files directly,
renaming them, e.g., to *.32 and setting an executable extension
.32=c:\bin\go32.exe under 4dos shell, in which case spawn?() and
exec?() are not usable.

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Christian Burger, Dept.of Phys.Chemistry, University of Marburg, Germany
e-mail: burger AT mailer DOT uni-marburg DOT de,  (Phone|FAX): +49(6421)28-578(9|5)