On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 2:05 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <hah...@hahnjo.de> wrote:
> > > > * if instead we build images for every commit, then incremental > > > building of a provided patch will be fast(er) (_if_ it doesn't touch > > > any header file). But what's then the point of using ccache, we can > > > just trigger a full build? > > > > Full builds are slower. > > True, but my point is that it doesn't matter: You have to do a full > build to populate ccache; or you just build with the changes already > applied, what's the difference? > > the point is that you can take a snapshot of the full build at a point in time. As long as the C++ code doesn't change dramatically between that point and the commit to be tested, you'd get cache hits on a "clean" build at a new commit, making the whole thing faster. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
