Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:31:31 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Alistair Hamilton <eurgain AT enterprise DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: hello world compile time
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On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Alistair Hamilton wrote:

> >Even Win95 does a reasonable job, about 6 secs the first time, <3 secs
> >for subsequent compiles on a P75 with 40M RAM.
>                                                 
> 40 Meg???? Yegods! How the other half live!

Yegods! is right! and on a P75! (suffer me to use a 32MB SGI!) on that
score (since a P75 isn't exactly a speed demon...) what gives a greater
overall performance improvement, tons and tons of RAM, or a faster
processor? the biggest PC box I've ever had was a 16MB P133.. although I
have seen someone running VHDL simulations on a 64MB i486 (!) doesn't
anyone find that obscene? or does mucho memory really help more than CPU
muscle?

cheers,

orly