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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