On 4/20/2012 14:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:26:28 +0200
Florian Klaempfl<flor...@freepascal.org> wrote:
[...]
Do you have any proof that writing/reading to the files to disk is an
issue? On modern harddisks and OSes the plain I/O speed is normally not
the issue when compiling.
True.
Lazarus make clean all under Linux 64 bit:
ramdisk:
real 1m8.377s
user 1m2.584s
sys 0m4.212s
disk:
real 1m11.661s
user 1m5.488s
sys 0m4.352s
AFAIK, linux also has much better caching capabilities, too... at least as
compared to winwhatever... in one project i work with, there are magnitudes of
difference when sufficiently large cache memory is available... i'm talking
about compiling a complete and stripped linux based OS with all associated tools
and apps for a network security device aimed at dumpster diving acquired
hardware, though... still, when we're talking about 100 minutes of RAM based IO
compared to 200+ or more minutes of strictly hardware based IO writes, it makes
a huge difference ;)
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