Re: [ros-kernel] compiling

[Royce M. I. <ro...@ev...>]

I know that DOS dies... That's the same thing loadlin does, and I've read
about booting OS's in the past ( though I'm by no means an expert )

So, I'm sorry if I caused confusion, but my question was:

Is the I/O performance problem because there is no hard-disk cacheing
available in reactos, yet?

----- Original Message -----
From: "KJK::Hyperion" <no...@li...>
To: <rea...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] compiling


> At 03.25 04/07/2002, you wrote:
> > > > 1) What is the recommended compiler for recompiling
> > > > the OS? ( Can I recompile
> > > > from within the OS, yet? )
> > > You can use mingw/gcc in ReactOS however it is VERY
> > > slow due to IO issues in the filesystem drivers.
> > > Hartmut has been working on this
> >Thanks for the quick reply!
> >Just out of curiosity, is the performance issue due to a lack of a
> >"smartdrv.exe"
>
> nope. DOS "dies" an instant before ReactOS starts. It's ReactOS that
> doesn't do buffered I/O, and the compiler/linker that write files in
really
> small chunks (a handful bytes at a time)
>
>
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