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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Kermit, also Workbench Suggestion
Message-ID: <415@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 13:18:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.415
Posted: Mon Jun 16 13:18:49 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Jun-86 04:04:42 EDT
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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> SUGGESTION FOR FUTURE AMIGA WORKBENCH (OS) ENHANCEMENTS:
> 
> This is my dream:  While compiling kermit above, I noticed that for each
> module it read in LC1 from disk, did pass 1, read LC2 from disk, did pass2,
> and then had to read in LC1 and LC2 from disk for every module compile.
> The dream is whether these could be "locked" in so that they would never
> have to be read from disk again, but could be memory resident.  I have
> noticed that the Amiga *does* do this to some extent - If you do a lot
> of copies, for example, it only reads the copy program in once.  It appears
> that the "locking" only exists for the last file read, so that in the
> lattice case, LC1 will be overwritten by LC2 meaning that you have to
> read both from disk every time.
>
> Dan Green    ARPA:    hsgj%vax2.ccs.cornell.edu@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
> ~~~~~~~~~    BITNET:  hsgj@cornella
>              UUCP:    {decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!cornell!batcomputer!hsgj

If the time of loading becomes a critical factor, and you don't want to store
anything in the RAM disk, you could first run the LC1 pass on everything,
producing ".q" files, then run the LC2 pass, which will remove the ".q" and
create ".o" files.  This way, each of the compiler passes would remain in
memory as long as needed.

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Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

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