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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: RAM disk.
Message-ID: <1851@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 11 Oct 90 00:46:50 GMT
References: <18560@rpp386.cactus.org> <143359@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <18574@rpp386.cactus.org> <1850@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <1990Oct10.152556.9367@canterbury.ac.nz>
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In article <1990Oct10.152556.9367@canterbury.ac.nz> cosc038@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@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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