[gentoo-dev] ccache (compiler cache)

[Jonathan Rippy]

I posted this a while back and I never saw any response from
the Gentoo team.  Well, there is now a new version of compiler
cache called ccache and it is available at http://ccache.samba.org

 From the first paragraph of said webpage:

     "ccache is a compiler cache. It acts as a caching pre-processor to
     C/C++ compilers, using the -E compiler switch and a hash to detect
     when a compilation can be satisfied from cache. This often results
     in a 5 to 10 times speedup in common compilations."

I feel this would be a boon to the Gentoo system.  I'm hoping someone
on the Gentoo team can check this out and see if it would make sense
to have the ebuild system able to use this.

Thanks.

-- 
jonathan rippy