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Hi! Sorry I should have posted an update earlier. I managed to resolve my problem. The source was Symantec AV! I had only tried "unloading" it thinking that it would not launch any processes for scanning etc. Looks like it still does because when I completely uninstalled compiling time improved...

Hi! I would like to know what's the way to convert a double to its char[8] representation, and vice versa (Char[8] to double) i.e EXAMPLES -> 1.3e-15 (made up that number) In VS debugger you can cast double variables with ",s" to get their representation as string which is useful.. Note: I...

Thanks Tonhu, I thought you were onto something with disk cache. Unfortunately my hard-drive is already in dma mode. Also enable write-caching and rebooted but did not get significant performance increase :(

As I mentioned before my disk was defragged a few times.. Re Jock's suggestions I've tried changing both the memory options to system cache and background services, also set to no paging (rebooted of course). No improvement. All libraries and source code are on the local hard drive, nothing is...

When I compile I only use 30% max RAM (got 3Gb). I've got 4.6Gb as virtual memory. Hard disk activity is going really high which could explain the slowdown but since I've got plenty of free RAM it should not swap as much! I've tried using several RAM optimizers without any effect because I've...

-I have used Process Explorer already to check if there were some processes taking all the CPU but I could not find anything.. Typically when compiling I have: 1) cl.exe taking on average 15% CPU then 2) System 3) DPC 4) Services all taking < 1% -It happens on several laptop (some have...

HI! We are working on a software program that mixes various languages: Fortran, C++ and java. For the C++ we have been using Visual Studio 2003 compiler and Compaq Intel Fortran until now which have been working fine until now. Recently I have noticed a serious slowdown at compile time...