Subject: Re: UBC, interactive performance, etc
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/04/2001 09:31:15
> Don't try and solve it for temp files.  They should be a pure MFS
> filesystem anyway, where none of this should matter, or the compiler
> should be using pipes between stages.

So you're proposing to drop support for machines with less than gobs
and gobs of RAM?  Machines where -pipe thrashes bceause it can't keep
all passes in core at once, and there just isn't enough RAM to dedicate
to a large-enough MFS?

					der Mouse

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