On Friday 27 September 2002 19:42, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: ccache":
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 03:52:31PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote:
> > > recently, i saw something about ccache. i've read the documentation,
> > > and downloaded the latest ccache (1.9). its installed, but before i'll
> > > try using it, i was wondering if anyone has any expirience with it,
> > > compiling large ammounts of code, and if there's anything i should know
> > > (other then what the howto states)
> >
> > I have been using it to compile everything I compile (mostly
> > kernels). I never saw it miscompile anything, which would've been a
> > showstopper for this kind of tool. Ocasionally it seems to stop
> > working (compilation times rise) when the cache gets to half a
>
> You guys got me curious. What is that ccache? What does it cache? Is it
> free software?

" 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."

read the howto at : http://ccache.samba.org/ccache/ccache-man.html
more info at : 

http://ccache.samba.org/ccache/

tal.


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