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In <1992Nov13.180117.20097@tamsun.tamu.edu> tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:

>Howdy netters,

>Some compilers, linkers, and editors create intermediate files
>which gets deleted at the end of the job.

>Of a ramdrive or a disk cache, which one is more suitable for
>such temporary files?

Generally a fast RAMdrive will speed this sort of application up a
lot. 

>How about caching a ram-drive? Does it make sense?

Not much, no.  The advantage of using a RAM drive for the temp files
and your cache for the rest is that you get blinding speed for all the
temp files, yet you don't wind up flushing your cache in the process
of creating them.  If you try to cache your RAM Drive, it will
probably be SLOWER and it would make more sense to just take the
memory you're allocating as a RAM Drive and use it for Cache.

I use both on my machine (for different things), but I have a lot of
memory.  Another thing you might want to do is point the Windows
'Temp' directory at a RAM drive (for the same reason).



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