On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: > > > Description: a caching wrapper around compilers to speed up compilations > > Compilercache is a wrapper around your C and C++ compilers. Each > > time you compile something, the wrapper puts the result of the > > compilation into a cache. And once you compile the same thing again, > > the result will be picked from the cache instead of being recompiled. > > . > > Care is taken to ensure that compilation with and without compilercache > > always results in identical object files. > > Gee, I thought it was already packaged as "make". The rationale behind this is, that "make" handles the easy cases and compilercache takes care of more complex ones.
Examples are:
* Changed comments, especially in header files:
make would recompile files, but compilercache will
not, because the preprocessed file did not change.
* Unused defines: if you reconfigure the linux kernel,
make will recompile many files, because
some defines in some header files are changed.
Compilercache will only recompile files, which actually
use the changed define.
I use the package for myself (in addition to make)
and find it quite useful.
Jochen
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