From: norup AT aauobs DOT obs DOT aau DOT dk (Anton Norup Soerensen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Using a RAMDISK setup
Date: 5 Nov 1997 08:38:57 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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: I have heard some talk about people using RAMDISKs to speed up the
: compilation process.

I have 32MB RAM, and I'm using a 4MB disk cache with delayed write.
By adding also a 4MB RAM disk, I have not been able to see any performance
gain - so I'm waiting for someone to demonstrate that a RAM disk is actually
an advantage.
For testing, I used a multi-file job that took 4 minutes to compile on a
P200 under djgpp, and about 13% faster under Linux/gcc.

Kind regards,
Anton