On 14/11/2010 4:21 PM, Derrick Coetzee wrote: > > In my experience, the use of temporary files is not that bad (for > example, gcc uses multiple temporary files in the course of compiling > a .c file). I once did a test build of the Linux kernel on a RAM disk > instead of the real disk and the difference in build time was less > than 1%.
That's not a very good test: the kernel build uses the -pipe option of GCC and will not use temporary files, ramdisk or no. :-) The only difference you might see was the actual output files. -- Coren / Marc _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
