ramdrive

Duplicate: RAMDrive for compiling - is there such a thing? I have an idea how to speed up my IDE. I want to create a RAM disk and move my solution onto this virtual disk. I think that this can speed up the IDE because RAM is much faster than a HDD. Has anyone done this before? PS: I think, when I have some documents in my program(real world) which are used frequently(for example some document templates) it could be good idea to move these documents onto a RAM disk as well to speed up I/O. Am I wrong? If power is a problem, a UPS could solve it. I just read a post on this very subject: http:/

We're developing Java/SpringSource applications with Eclipse on 32-bit Vista machines with 4GB RAM. The OS exposes roughly 3.3GB of RAM due to reservations for hardware etc. in the virtual address space. I came across several Ramdisk drivers that can create a virtual disk from the OS-hidden RAM and am looking for suggestions how best to use the 740MB virtual disk to speed development in our environment. The slowest part of development for us is compiling as well as launching SpringSource dm Server. One option is to configure Vista to swap to the Ramdisk. That works, and noticeably speeds up

An answer (see below) to one of the questions right here on Stack Overflow gave me an idea for a great little piece of software that could be invaluable to coders everywhere. I'm imagining RAM drive software, but with one crucial difference - it would mirror a real folder on my hard drive. More specifically - the folder which contains the project I'm currently working on. This way any builds would be nearly instantaneous (or at least a couple orders of magnitude faster). The RAM drive would synchronize its contents with the hard disk drive in background using only idle resources. A quick