Re: Building with a RAM disk

2014-07-19 Thread Philipp Kewisch
I've had been doing this on my laptop with only an SSD in hopes of saving write cycles, but eventually I gave up. Far too many situations where the battery died and I had to do a full rebuild. I was thinking of writing some caching script that would save not-so-often changed objects to the SSD

Building with a RAM disk

2014-07-18 Thread Geoff Lankow
Today I tried to build Firefox on a RAM disk for the first time, and although I succeeded through trial and error, it occurs to me that there are probably things I could do better. Could someone who regularly does this make a blog post or an MDN page about their workflow and some tips and

Re: Building with a RAM disk

2014-07-18 Thread Benoit Jacob
What OS are we talking about? (On Linux, ramdisks are mountpoints like any other so that would be trivial; but then again, on Linux, the kernel is good enough at using extra RAM for disk cache automatically, that you get the benefits of a RAMdisk automatically). Benoit 2014-07-18 22:39