[ale] Performance

[Ray Knight]

If you're building C or C++ take a look a ccache as well.  As described
from the ccache home page at http://ccache.samba.org :

ccache is a compiler cache. 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 in common compilations.

I maintain the m68k Macintosh version of the Linux kernel and this has
proved very helpful.  m68k Macs are pretty slow by today's standards and
using ccache has made building kernels less of an ordeal.

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:04, Liberie F. Cunha-Neto wrote:
> if you have more pcs in your network you can use DISTCC
> http://distcc.samba.org
> 
> distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is often two or more times faster than a local compile.
> 
> 
> 
> On 07 Nov 2003 11:37:45 -0500
> Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've got an AMD 1.2GHZ machine and I'm looking to upgrade it to get
> > better performance.  The main problem I have is with compiling our
> > software.  It is just taking too long and I want to make the process
> > faster.
> > 
> > Disk Performance:
> > 
> > [root at cfowler cfowler]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
> > 
> > /dev/hdb:
> >  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.01 seconds =126.73 MB/sec
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.37 seconds = 46.72 MB/sec
> > 
> > Will getting at AMD 2400+ make a huge difference in compile times?
> > Obviously when compiling software some I/O is invloved on the disks.
> > 
> > 
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