Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 13:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Long Doan <ldoan1 AT mason1 DOT gmu DOT edu>
Subject: Re: C++ compile speed tips?
To: Kimberley Burchett <OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
Cc: DJGPP Mailing List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>

On Fri, 21 Oct 1994, Kimberley Burchett wrote:

>   Given the fact that the C++ compiler seems to crash every time I 
> misspell something (quite often, in other words) and the fact that I only 
> have 4MB RAM and it's swapping almost continuously, trying to compile a 
> program is getting to be very difficult.  It will take a minute and a 
> half to get to line 150 (after going through 500 lines of #includes or 
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>   So, since it would seem that most of the time is spent swapping, I'm
> wondering if perhaps increasing SmartDrive's cache size would help. 
> Changing from gcc to gccrm helped some - from 2:15 minutes to 1:40 minutes
> (and I used to complain that the C compiler took 20 seconds!).  I don't

  I think a 1-2M ram disk for swapping will help. Don't use Smartdrive!

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