On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:14:41 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly > > decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was > > particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The > > general jist of it was to create temporary file system in memory and > > mount your portage tmpdir there. For the life of me, I can't find > > that thread anymore. Does anyone do something similar to this? Are > > there noticable gains to be had. I have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB ram. > > I am not sure if this will give a tremendous speedup. Granted, the > source files won't need to be read from disk, which is an advantage, > however, the file reading time should be very small compared to the > time it takes for the compiler to translate the source code into > machine code. > Also, there's the ammount of memory you will lose, memory that could > be used by the compiler. In some cases, gcc can eat very big chunks of > memory.
Not to mention the OOo ebuild needing around 3GB of space in TMPDIR, so this approach would only result in the emerge failing quicker. -- Neil Bothwick Capt'n! The spellchecker kinna take this abuse!
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