From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DudUN-0001Zu-1n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:49:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6ILkg2Y024920; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:46:42 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6ILdvnA030485 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:39:57 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E2053BB for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:39:30 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:39:30 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations In-Reply-To: <200507181926.38499.ti.liame@email.it> References: <20050718170738.GA5538@may.frognet.net> <200507181926.38499.ti.liame@email.it> Message-Id: <20050719093828.7A9A.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21 [en] X-Archives-Salt: fdb3610b-36ed-4729-beef-e473bcc43279 X-Archives-Hash: ad22db6aeb3ea7ddd8d52bd30caafbab On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:26:38 +0200 Francesco Talamona wrote: > 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. yeah and smaller programs take a negligible time in most cases. anyone who has tested this, did you have ccache turned off? if it is on it will skew results to hell, as a lot of the object files will be cached. > > Ciao > Francesco > -- > Linux Version 2.6.11-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 Thu Jun 23 05:26:18 > One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4308.99 Bogomips Total > aemaeth > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list