Re: compile speed

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:36:50AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> For the kernel I found that -j3 is a few seconds faster than -j4.
> 
> But what really makes a difference for me is ccache. It won't hep the
> first time you compile something but the second time. I would be
> interested to hear about cache hit/miss ratios for apt-build usage.

I have never looked at ccache.

> I have half a mind to file a bugreport against gcc to default to
> it. The only reason not to use -pipe is when you don't have much rum,
> like < 128MiB.

or perhaps 512MB if compiling C++.

-- 
Len Sorensen