[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > > > I guess I should have asked for the ratio B/A. If that's small, as you > > claim, there should be a significant gain. _If_ it turned out that A > > and B were of the same size, then the gain would be quite small, > > decreasing the number of required syncs at most by a smallish factor > > like 2 or 5. > > Um, cutting the number of syncs in half would have a *huge* impact. I > think you underestimate the cost of a disk seek.
Right, it would improve the speed significantly, but it wouldn't get rid of the "harddisk is thrashing hard all the time while I'm compiling, even if I have plenty of RAM and all the source files are cached"-behaviour. The thrashing would be just as violent, but last shorter. I'll try to stop now. Thanks for your patience. /Niels _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
