RFC: Optimizing for 386 (Part 2)

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:33:04PM -0500, Paul A. Houle wrote:
> money to spend on building a compile system,  I'd seriously consider  
> getting a few 9GB SCSI drives off ebay and using them for a temp directory 
> to do  compiles on.

At current prices its even more effective IMHO to get a box with 2-4GB of RAM and
just load the entire compile environment into ramdisk, cvs checkout the
devel code off disk into ramdisk and build in ram