reduce compilation times?

[Andrew Haley]

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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