Re: [Dev-C++] Compilation painfully slow

[lordSauron <lor...@gm...>]

I'd also reccommend a upgrade of RAM.

I ran 98 for years on 256 (which you can now get for about $20 on
newegg.com) megs and it was very fast.  I also enjoyed a Athlon 1400
which was shamefully superior to its PIII/Celeron "equivalents."  The
machine, another 256 megs and an OS upgrade later, now server under
Windows XP, and it still performs quite well.  The Celeron never was
that fast, and if you get the chance, dump it in favour of a real
chip.  But a memory upgrade from where you're standing is almost a
necessity.  Even my laptop (1 GHz pentium M piece of crap) compiles
reasonably fast with only 256 megs of ram.  If you ever upgrade to XP,
keep in mind that XP requires at least 512 megs of ram to function
properly, but 98 was nice because it was so lightweight.

basically: goto newegg.com and buy a stick of RAM that's 256 megs
(should be about $20 - $40) and you're going to have a VERY happy
little machine, but if you've got the cash dump your pathetic little
celeron.  While the clock speed is quasi-impressive, the actual
performance is really nothing when compared to AMD chips of the same
era.  If you want cheap AMD crap of the same era, look to
computergeeks.com b/c they have it all.  I mean, the Celeron was
slower than the PIII for crying out loud!  I eked more performance out
of a Pentium Pro @ 266 MHz than you probably get out of your Celeron!=20
Seriously, upgrade if at ALL possible.

Next is to uninstall all other crap that isn't really necessary.

But yeah, that's the advice of Lord Sauron the Great.