Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 11:23:07 PDT
From: jde AT Unify DOT Com (Jeff Evarts)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Performance

Hello everyone,

I`m embarking on a build of a reasonably large project, (600K lines
spread across 4500 files) and I want to make sure my performance is
everything it can be before I start...

I`m using a 486/33 with 16M of RAM (6M in a Ramdrive) That leaves
about 9Mb of XMS/EMS.

On the ramdrive are 3 directories /tmp, /bin and /lib.

/bin contains make, gcc, cc1, cpp, as, ld, and go32
/lib contains all the .a files from djgpp/lib

That leaves ~3.5M free in the ramdrive.

I have COMPILER_PATH set to d:/bin, LIBRARY_PATH set to d:/lib and TMPDIR
set to d:/tmp

gcc takes ~6 seconds to compile a 3-line "hello world" program.

I notice a lot of disk chatter during that time, but I can`t figure
out what it`s doing. (I don`t THINK it`s swapping, with 9M RAM...)

Is this performance good/average/poor for this setup?
Have I missed anything REALLY obvious?
(It`s the disk access that`s confusing me)

-Jeff Evarts