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. 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. -MaximReceived on Wed Aug 25 2004 - 14:22:14 UTC
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