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From: akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: why are C compiles so slow?
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Date: 1 Dec 89 12:12:39 GMT
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>   Well, I'm using a 12 MHz AT (1 ws) with a 25 ms hard drive and a 384K disk
>cache, and using Turbo C 2.0 and TLINK 2.0, and I find things compile
>and link pretty quickly.  Actually, it seems that about 40-60% of the time
>is spent reading in the header files!

I'm running SCO Xenix 2.3.3 on a 25mhz '386 with 4 megs of RAM and usually
I load the header files into a RAM disk - which makes the compiles really