gcc is slow for me

[Drcadmando@aol.com]

'm having a bad experience with the speed of gcc. I have run some tests on 86 randomly selected set of .c files, making a static library. On the same machine, in different partitions, one LINUX, the other dos. In the LINUX partition, under LINUX, version 2-2-16, simple make all command, it takes about three hours. In the dos partition, under Windows 3.1, using a vintage 1994 version of Borland,s compiler, it takes 7.5 minutes. I don't really think it is gcc which is doing this, but I do believe I have told any configurator I have what the hardware parameters are. Furthermore, I don't hear any disk rattle, which I would in the case of thrashing. I am obviously doing something wrong, but I need advice on where to look.

Thanx,
Marvin E Walden