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On 13:07 Mon 18 Jul , John J. Foster wrote: |
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> Good afternoon all, |
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> A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease |
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> compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable |
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> when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to |
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> create temporary file system in memory and mount your portage tmpdir |
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> there. For the life of me, I can't find that thread anymore. Does anyone |
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> do something similar to this? Are there noticable gains to be had. I |
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> have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB ram. |
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> Thanks, |
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> John |
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There was a thread about ways of speeding up compilation on gentoo-dev |
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(including what you mentioned) a while ago. |
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Good look compiling OOo with $PORTAGE_TMPDIR mounted in ram though ;) |
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Dave |
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