[LUNI] /dev/shm

scott thomason scott at industrial-linux.org
Mon Dec 24 22:49:02 CST 2001


OT, but you can speed up the C compiler by eliminating its use of /tmp
files with the "-pipe" option.
---scott

On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 21:50, mjinks at sysvi.com wrote:
> So if you run a lot of processes that create and destroy many
> small files rapidly (C compilers seem to be the standard example), you
> can expect a performance boost using tmpfs.
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