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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Quien es mas macho? (HD caching)
Message-ID: <13510004@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 90 20:47:12 GMT
References: <1990Oct27.162723.2834@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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Howard Chu asks:

> Hm. With sufficient memory and a good cache, isn't the whole idea of a
> RAMdisk pointless?
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Not entirely. I use Mark Williams C, which, as a three pass compiler writes 
lots of temporary files, not to mention the object files and the link file.
I use a RAM disk to minimize the fragmentation on my hard drive, caused by
all this file creation/deletion. The cache is to speed up access of the
various programs, include files and libraries that the compilation needs.

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