Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:51:01 +0100
From: enok AT lysator DOT liu DOT se
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Optimize your PC


>> My recommendation is to get a 16 MByte machine and to give 3-4 MBytes to
>> a disk cache.  This should win even for large projects.

>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
>the rest to smartdrive (6Mb) for holding the compiler, objects,
>editor, etc.

>I've got 32M now - 14M cache, 4M ramdisk, 13M virtual, 1M dos.  No
>problems now!

>DJ

You are all spoiled!
I recompiled gcc with -O2 and 4MB RAM and no diskcache. It didn't take more
than a day.

:-)

/Oskar