To: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Cc: enok AT lysator DOT liu DOT se, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Optimize your PC 
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 17:30:41 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> When building gcc itself with -O2, I found that 16Mb was tight.  gcc
> used 5Mb of virtual memory and 4Mb of temp space (ramdisk).  I gave

Was that 5MB number when compiling or when linking?  If when
compiling, then how large is the largest GCC source file?
My 2.5MB figure was observed when compiling Makeinfo.c which
is 7500 lines long (9000+ lines with #include'd headers).

While it is true that the more RAM the better (lucky you!!),
I would say that even with 16MB compiling GCC is no big deal:
just give 1MB less to RAM disk; I don't think the compilation
time would be much longer.  (Of course, if you spend most of
your spare time compiling GCC, your view of this issue will be
a bit different ;-)