To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Subject: Re: RAM drive 
Cc: raymond AT hef DOT kun DOT nl, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Reply-To: pgf AT Cayman DOT COM
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 18:25:42 EST
From: Paul Fox <pgf AT Cayman DOT COM>

 > > Hi, I've been trying to improve on compilation time by making a RAM drive.
 > 
 > Swapping to a RAM drive isn't likely to be any faster than having that memory
 > directly available, and your timing results show that it is much slower.  The

what about the TMP directory?  the readme (one of them, don't remember
which) states explicitly that putting tmp into a ram drive is a win.

paul