On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman <i...@primate.net> wrote: > So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith? >
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:34 AM, <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> wrote: > Either way, it'd be nice if someone actually benchmarked this. > I don't have exhaustive benchmarks but moving PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a tmpfs makes builds at least an order of magnitude faster. For general usage with /tmp you may or may not notice, but the lack of normal IO overhead can only make it faster.
