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- From: iskra@student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Kamil Iskra)
- Subject: Re: ADE
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- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:59:06 GMT
-
- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.amigalib.com) wrote:
- > In article <mbs.46mp@adastra.cvl.va.us>,
- > Michael B. Smith <mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us> wrote:
- > >rez is a way of keeping program, normally loaded from disk, at each
- > >request; in memory. When a shell or another program tries to run a
- > >rez'ed program, a copy is provided from memory; without having to load
- > >it from disk.
- > >
- > >It uses lots more memory; but it's worlds faster too.
-
- What's the difference between this program and standard system "resident"
- command?
-
- > How does that differ from something like DynamiCache, which I typically
- > run with about an 8Mb buffer and a 98% cache hit on my tools disk (where
- > all the compilation tools are).
-
- Caching a hard drive is not the same as keeping a program resident. When I
- had 6 MB RAM and wanted to recompile IXEmul, I noticed that most of my
- memory was eaten by 4 or 5 instances of "make" and "sh", called
- recursively one from the other. If these two programs could be made
- resident, it would save a lot of RAM and recompiling IXEmul with 6 MB
- would be simple - but it was horrible experience, since I had to enter
- subdirectiories manually and call their own Makefiles manually.
-
- > Guess maybe it's time to revisit the issue of generating resident versions
- > of the tools.
-
- Definitely yes. But every time I mention it on amiga-gcc-port list I hear
- that there are still some strange problems with -resident.
-
- > -Fred
-
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