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SubjectRe: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel - take 3
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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