Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!hsu 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 Message-ID: <14622@santra.UUCP> Date: 16 Jul 88 13:58:26 GMT References:Sender: hsu@santra.UUCP Reply-To: hsu@santra.UUCP (Heikki Suonsivu) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 12 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.