Re: [Dev-C++] Compilation painfully slow

Win98 itself runns very happily in 32MB RAM. It's all a question of how
bloated applications that are used together with the OS. With 64MB RAM I
have one machine using NT 4.0 together with an older Office and it runs
like a charm. No problem with memory. It does slow down a lot with Win2k
on the other hand.

Note that there are a lot of tiny task-bark applets that consumes 5-50MB
each!!! All just to allow easy switching between resolutions, displaying
battery status and similar. This world is full of bloated software.

If the machine is expected to be used for at least 12 months more, I would
recommend that you check if it can support more memory and if possible
upgrade it.

By the way - I have used quite a lot of laptops. Several of them have used
special memory modules. No laptop have been difficult to upgrade by adding
an extra memory module or replacing the existing module with a larger
(unless of course the laptop was delivered with the maximum memory option
already installed).

/Per W

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Josh McFarlane wrote:

> On 7/26/05, Alfred P. Reaud <al...@ya...> wrote:
> >
> > The issue of ram only comes up when you are already crunched for ram.
> > That's why the previous suggestion to monitor memory usage via Task Manager
> > (or whatever was the appropriate application on '98).  64MB of ram may be
> > sufficient for some machines and OS combinations.  The fact that the
> > compiler runs slower than the previous version isn't indicative of a ram
> > size problem, as the previous compiler version ran with the existing ram
> > without problem, right?
>
> True, but Windows 98 by itself running on 64MB of RAM is incredibly
> slow. There's a huge performance increase going from just 64MB to
> 128MB and while it may not directly speed up the compiler due to more
> ram, the passive boost the system gets from Windows having more RAM
> will be very very nice.
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