* Ralph Hempel (Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:31:10 -0400) > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Ralph Hempel wrote: > >> I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH > >> drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in > >> my HOME directory will be awfully slow. > > > > Why is that? > > Creating, wand writing files is much slower on a FLASH > drive than on a hard disk. Not a big problem for a few > files here and there, but if I'm compiling gcc and binutils for > cross compiling to an ARM (for example) it might be MUCH > slower.
Then simply don't compile in your home directory... Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
