On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Al <oss.el...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Some thoughts of the day > > With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The > bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before > compilation. Each program das it again and 90% of the checks check > the same stuff. > > I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks.
confcache It can (or used to be able to) be used with portage, though I think it is discouraged because it can cause some other problems. I used it for a while and never noticed any ill effects, but maybe I wasn't looking in the right places. I read enough about it being bad that I stopped using it out of fear. The better time-saver is probably parallel emerges (emerge -j) which can configure multiple packages at once. It also has quirks but works most of the time. :)
