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From: spencer@usc-oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Locking LC1  {was Kermit, also Workbench Suggestion}
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Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 04:05:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 17 04:05:50 1986
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> > 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...
> > Dan Green    ARPA:    hsgj%vax2.ccs.cornell.edu@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu

> 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.

Trying to write a simple batch file to do this proved unfruitful.  It seems
to load lc1 in everytime, though copy will stay locked in the machine...
Sigh! I had such dreams of Fred's CC running without all the grinding...

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