Bug#409848: ccache: zlib compression support

2007-02-06 Thread Sami Liedes
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:14:25PM -0500, Francois Marier wrote: > I'm tending towards applying this patch but disabling compression by > default. What do you think? Sounds reasonable to me, if you don't feel comfortable enabling it by default. Sami signature.asc Description: Digital s

Bug#409848: ccache: zlib compression support

2007-02-06 Thread Francois Marier
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:55:06AM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote: > There are some benchmarks in http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/ccache/ Sorry, I should have looked at that. It looks like the impact of compression is negligible. > There's an environment variable, CCACHE_NOCOMPRESS, to turn the > compres

Bug#409848: ccache: zlib compression support

2007-02-06 Thread Sami Liedes
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:50:06PM -0500, Francois Marier wrote: > Sounds like an interesting idea. The only concern I have is how much > overhead does that add to the compilation time? Since the whole > point of using ccache is to speed up compilation, we have to be > careful about adding extra ov

Bug#409848: ccache: zlib compression support

2007-02-06 Thread Francois Marier
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:22:42AM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote: > Compressed cache support would be nice, as the caches tend to grow > quite large. After compressing the cache (with the script) > my cache dir shrunk from >400 MiB to 94 MiB -> more stuff fits in the > cache. Seems to work, after some t

Bug#409848: ccache: zlib compression support

2007-02-05 Thread Sami Liedes
Package: ccache Version: 2.4-7 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Compressed cache support would be nice, as the caches tend to grow quite large. There is a patch available at http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/ccache/ . It applied cleanly to the current debian package and produced a zlib-enabled ccache; in