Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:10:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
Cc: sime AT fly DOT cc DOT etf DOT hr, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Running under 95
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Orlando Andico wrote:

> > It takes only two seconds on my 486DX4-120. I think that you have to
> > configure TMPDIR environment variable to a RAM disk to get better
> > performance.
> > 
> 
> that would probably be because GCC/CC1/AS/LD produce temporary files in
> TMPDIR for output, unlike under *real* operating systems where you can do
> a `gcc -pipe' and it doesn't use temporary files at all...

On *real* operating systems, it is usually highly UNrecommended to use gcc
with the -pipe option, since it results in heavy CPU load, and is almost
never faster than the default operation.  (Otherwise, gcc would be by 
default configured with that option, right?)