Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 17:50:36 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc: raymond AT hef DOT kun DOT nl, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: RAM drive


> The
> only way a RAM disk can speed things up is if you load programs and include

I use the RAMdisk *only* for gcc's temporary files and go32.exe, and
let the cache worry about commonly-hit files.  I upgraded from a
386/20 to a 486/66 because it was taking three *hours* to build gcc
with itself.  I got it down to a half hour by doing this:

	386DX/20 -> 486DX2/66
	8Mb -> 16Mb (extra cache & go32 space)
	IDE -> SCSI-II/EISA

Each in itself dramatically improves that subsystem's performance,
yielding a solid 6X overall performance gain.

DJ