On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:26:38 +0200 Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote: > > Good afternoon all, > > > > 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. > > IIRC OO takes more than 3GB of space to compile. Gcc itself is quite RAM > demanding... > > I tkink it is feasible for smaller programs.
yeah and smaller programs take a negligible time in most cases. anyone who has tested this, did you have ccache turned off? if it is on it will skew results to hell, as a lot of the object files will be cached. > > Ciao > Francesco > -- > Linux Version 2.6.11-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 Thu Jun 23 05:26:18 > One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4308.99 Bogomips Total > aemaeth > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
