Robert - elists writes: > I am not a ccache expert... > > I came across it in the last few months and just today had some time to > install it on a centos 4.6 box and play for a second or two. > > If anyone on the list is familiar with using it? > > If so, then the questions would be, is it appropriate to use it, or > something similar, to speedup Justin Mason's sought.cf ruleset SA > compilations ??? > > If so, how did you specifically implement it? > > How much time are you saving? > > I have done some rudimentary testing and saved about 4 minutes, yet I just > think that was from doing two compiles in a row even though ccache was > enabled at the start of the script. > > I have not yet dug deeply into the sa-compile mechanism(s) to see if > anything can be squeezed out of there...
sa-compile itself does similar caching internally, so I doubt it'll help much. Feel free to prove me wrong though ;) --j.
