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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Compilation speeds (was Re: No patchlevel 3.}
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.132446.20379@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 13:24:46 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.215429.7866@umr.edu> <1992Sep8.002147.790@wam.umd.edu> <1992Sep8.181730.21601@umr.edu> <BuA2E0.IGw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BuA2E0.IGw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
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- | (the most significant factor for compiling would, as has been said here
- | before by those more knowedgable than I, probably be the amount of memory.
- | Increasing from 2M to 16M on the 385sx/20 would likely reduce the time
- | to under an hour).
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- 12MB will bring it down to under 40min on a 386SX16 + 387.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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