Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 May 2002 19:41:20 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel - take 3 |
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On Fri, 17 May 2002, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:14:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The deteriorating performance of gcc and the tendency of > > > the current build system to needlessly recompile stuff are > > > acute problems. ccache saves me probably one hour per day. > > > > A build on my laptop takes well over an hour. This is not useful > > for actually getting things done. I'm all for mitigating build > > time in such cases, by kbuild-2.5 and perhaps other methods. > > I suppose you want ccache then. kbuild-2.5 may save two minutes of your > one hour build.
That's assuming you have to build from scratch. The whole point is to reduce the need to do that by making dependencies more accurate.
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