> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 00:40:30 +0200
> From: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (H. J|ngst, ISKP, Bonn)
> 
> It is amusing to see that "-pipe" is still missing in sys.mk. Is the one
> SX386/4Mbyte crate still alive which prevents the usage of "-pipe" as
> default? ;-)
> 
> Henry

The implication here is that -pipe would make gcc significantly
faster, which is true only if the job is I/O bound.  It is not.

Even if it were, a RAM-disk or MFS does a better job of reducing
the I/O bottleneck, because you are less likely to swap when you
can run the processes serially instead of concurrently.

Gordon