RAM disk.

Boyd Roberts boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz
Thu Oct 11 10:46:50 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct10.152556.9367 at canterbury.ac.nz> cosc038 at canterbury.ac.nz writes:
>  There is a -pipe option which connects the cc(1) processes
>directly using pipes, with no need for /tmp files.

Brucee did that at basser.  cc had a -K flag (Keep it in the buffer cache).
Sped up compiles no end, but with 3 cc -O -K's going (courtesy of a parallel
make) it'd _slaughter_ a 780.  The whole thing would be CPU bound -- nice.


Boyd Roberts			boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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