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From: Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@email.it>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:26:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507181926.38499.ti.liame@email.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050718170738.GA5538@may.frognet.net>

On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote:
> Good afternoon all,
>
> A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly
> decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was
> particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The
> general jist of it was to create temporary file system in memory and
> mount your portage tmpdir there. For the life of me, I can't find
> that thread anymore. Does anyone do something similar to this? Are
> there noticable gains to be had. I have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB
> ram.

IIRC OO takes more than 3GB of space to compile. Gcc itself is quite RAM 
demanding...

I tkink it is feasible for smaller programs.

Ciao
	Francesco
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-18 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-18 17:07 [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations John J. Foster
2005-07-18 17:14 ` Bruno Lustosa
2005-07-18 17:55   ` Neil Bothwick
2005-07-18 18:40     ` Colin
2005-07-18 18:55       ` John J. Foster
2005-07-18 19:01       ` Daniel da Veiga
2005-07-18 17:19 ` John J. Foster
2005-07-18 17:55   ` Zac Medico
2005-07-18 19:06     ` Richard Fish
2005-07-18 17:23 ` David Morgan
2005-07-18 17:26 ` Francesco Talamona [this message]
2005-07-18 21:39   ` [gentoo-user] " Nick Rout
2005-07-19 10:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Rafer
2005-07-19 21:11   ` Zac Medico

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