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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:26:38 +0200 |
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Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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> On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, 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 |
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> > decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was |
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> > particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The |
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> > general jist of it was to create temporary file system in memory and |
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> > mount your portage tmpdir there. For the life of me, I can't find |
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> > that thread anymore. Does anyone do something similar to this? Are |
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> > there noticable gains to be had. I have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB |
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> > ram. |
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> IIRC OO takes more than 3GB of space to compile. Gcc itself is quite RAM |
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> demanding... |
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> I tkink it is feasible for smaller programs. |
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yeah and smaller programs take a negligible time in most cases. |
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anyone who has tested this, did you have ccache turned off? if it is on |
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it will skew results to hell, as a lot of the object files will be |
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cached. |
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> Ciao |
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> Francesco |
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> Linux Version 2.6.11-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 Thu Jun 23 05:26:18 |
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> One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4308.99 Bogomips Total |
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> aemaeth |
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