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From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: hello world compile time
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:21:46 +0100
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In article <31d51be6 DOT 1025944 AT nntpserver DOT swip DOT net>, Robert Fremin
<robert DOT fremin AT mailbox DOT swipnet DOT se> writes
>>I am running a pentium pro (p6) 200 mhz with 32 megs of memory, and 48 megs 
>>in swap.  djgpp compiles the hello world program basically instantaneously, 
>>so I am guessing minimal time is based on disk-access times.  The hardward is 
>>slowing it all down again .. ugh.  Damned hardware =)
>>
>Are you running Windows-NT then (because of the P6)? I have seen some really
>efficient caching with NT, so maybe all DJGPP files are held in memory...

Even Win95 does a reasonable job, about 6 secs the first time, <3 secs
for subsequent compiles on a P75 with 40M RAM.

5 meg of ram seems dangerously low for djgpp, maybe thats the problem,
especially if some of is being used for disk caching perhaps?

-- 
Paul Shirley