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Re: reduce compilation times?
Sven Eschenberg writes:
> Aside from using -j on HT/Mulitcore/Multi-CPU Systems and ccache it
> might help to put the sourcecode into a ramdisk for compilation (no
> ccache needd then), or at least the build directory, for all the
> temporary stuff.
I don't think that ccache does what you think it does. As long as you
have plenty of RAM "make -j2" tends to speed things up even on a
uniprocessor, but not by a huge amount.
Andrew.
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