On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Amanda Walker <ama...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Marshall Greenblatt <
> magreenbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm putting together a new computer and I'd like to optimize my chromium
>> build times :-) Is anyone currently building chromium using a solid state
>> drive? Have you noticed any compile or link time speed improvements relative
>> to using a second traditional SATA drive?
>>
>
> Other people can chime in about windows ssd performance, but I have an SSD
> in a Mac laptop that I sometimes do builds on. Total build time is only
> marginally better than a traditional SATA drive (a few percent), but the
> machine is noticeably less sluggish doing other things during a build (when
> there's any disk contention happening, the faster seek time and i/o
> operations per second are a definite win). But for overall build time, I've
> found that RAM and CPU cores make much more of a difference than the drive.
>
>From what I've heard, SVN and searching within a project are faster with a
SSD. As for the system getting sluggish during compile: this can also be
solved by having a 2nd hard drive that contains all the source + build
files.
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