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From: hsu@santra.HUT.FI (Heikki Suonsivu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: compilation speed with enough memory
Summary: more buffers and ramdisk help
Keywords: ram disk speed 286 386
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Date: 16 Jul 88 13:58:26 GMT
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In article  hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>
>swapping, I don't think more memory would be likely to speed things up
>much more, but it's always possible.

It would, if you have buffers enough to hold c compiler passes and
install small ramdisk as /tmp. I picked up ramdisk posted here some
time ago, installed it on my 386 uport and got some speedup, specially
on big modules which produce long assembler files. Compilation went
from 17 minutes to 13. I have 1400 kb buffers and 1 M ramdisk,
probably I could still optimize. I have 8 M of ram and 28ms drive.
386 probably makes things a bit different.