Re: what kind of computer for programmer ?

Randy Howard wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:08:09 -0500, Johan \MrDutchy\ van den
> Broek wrote
> (in article <d9omqq$7uf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
> >> * Speed of the disk the compile is done on (a ramdisk is best for fast
> >> compiles)
> >
> > Thats a nice idea, does anyone know of a trustable and free tool for
> > windows (xp) i could use?
>
> Add more memory to your machine instead, it serves almost the
> same purpose, but pays off in everything you do, instead of just
> compiles. Same goes for hard drives. If you have a slow
> hard drive, it's hurting everything you do. A SATA RAID 0
> layout across a few small (less expensive) drives for doing I/O
> intensive tasks would be quite nice.
>
> With a ramdisk, you still have to copy everything into it, then
> back out, etc. The file system buffer cache does almost as well
> with a lot of RAM.

This depends on the system. The last time I did this the machine had
enough memory to disk-cache the intermediate files - but the operating
system didn't do this well. So, overall a ramdisk was faster.

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