Just a general tip:

If you want to find all software that uses cygnix on os4depot then go to this page:

http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=modules/sql/search

Enter "cygnix" into the Requirements field and click Search.

This program is what TypeSmith wanted to be.

It is a very powerful program. It can, however, behave badly with certain fonts, such as when adding loads and loads of kerning pairs to Gentium Italic, then trying to edit those pairs (you get a segmentation fault and a program crash while editing the pairs).

some people requested it and Edgar did it.

so now put your money where your mouth is and show some respect !

Donated a litte! Show your support too!

Your hard work rules Edgar!

@ all

As I've said on a-world, every little donation to sponsor me a faster amiga is welcome

But I have to say thanks again for the recent donations!

What kind of Amiga do you use currently, and what faster one would you like to get?

@COBRA

You name the problem. Like all others I'm waiting for a new and faster hardware.
At the moment I have the fastest Amiga ever released: An AmigaOne-XE G4/800 Mhz.
O.K., there are some overclocked boards, but this is not what I want.

A system like the high-end system announces by Amiga Inc. would be great, but I
have my doubt about it. So the only thing I can do, is to be ready, when finally a new
hardware will be released.

@cygnusEd

OK I get the idea. I'm using a uA1 G3/800 which is more than enough for my compiling needs, but then I don't compile huge things like GIMP and AbiWord, only my own small projects. Have you tried ccache? It claims to speed up a full compile of a source tree by a factor of 5 to 10. It's here on OS4depot, you might want to give it a try.

Also I trust that you have DMA enabled for your hard-drive?

@cygnusEd
Don't forget the power to multi-processing.

With distcc you can distribute your compiles to many machines as long as they have an AmigaOS gcc compiler installed. No SDK needed, just the compiler is all you need on the slave boxes.

Of course a bigger main box is also welcome since it gets saturated quickly.

@COBRA & ssolie

I will give ccache a try. Maybe it will help a bit. Thanks for your hint

But the main problems are unix scripts like "libtool". These scripts need much more time than gcc.
A distributed compile is nice, but when I'm debugging a project, in most cases I only need compile one
file and link the executable. A faster computer would help here for sure.

And yes, I've enabled DMA at 100 MB/s and I use SFS as filesystem. The speed of the HD is good enough.

the problem is also that iirc you are using 68k shell executables and not the native one. isn't it?

@afxgroup

No, all executables I use are OS4 native