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If the bottleneck is reading the information from disk you might |
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upgrade the SD card or use a USB drive instead, which may have better |
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random access performance. You could also store the portage tree on |
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another machine with faster storage and access it over the network. If |
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the bottleneck is actually calculating the dependencies, you are |
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probably out of luck for the immediate future. |
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For calculating dependencies I suspect the larger bottleneck is |
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reading everything from disk, seeing as the machines seem fast enough |
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you didn't complain too much about actually compiling. In either case |
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you should try to revisit distcc and cross compiling as that is the |
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only reliable way to speed everything up. You do not necessarily need |
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to use distcc with a cross compiler (the configuration most likely to |
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cause problems, though the wiki does address this). |
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