Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:25:07 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> Cc: portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccache support for make buildworld/make release Message-ID: <412CD983.2040700@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <412CBC91.3070900@portaone.com> References: <412CBC91.3070900@portaone.com>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Folks, > > I wonder if anyone considered adding ccache support for > buildworld/release targets. ccache is a tool, which wraps around gcc, > allowing to cache object files generated by the compiler to greatly > speed-up compilation of the same code over and over > (http://ccache.samba.org/). > > It acts as a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the -E > compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be > satisfied from cache. This often results in a 5 to 10 times speedup. Hm. It seems that this is very cool tool. I would glad to see it in FreeBSD. Since I've 5 branch compiles tooooo long and fast systems for compilation does not always available/possible to use while development. I volonteer to test this if needed. rik > > It can benefit both individual developers (less burden to test changes > via full buildworld), and tinderboxes. > > Another interesting use is for package building cluster - it should be > possible to set-up NFS folder shared among all nodes to hold cached > objects for all ports in the tree to reduce turnaround time by the > order of magnitude. > > -Maxim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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