Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-12-16, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: > > > Our couple of build machines are both fairly standard core i5 boxes > > with 16 gb of RAM, and Corsair SSDs. The RAM seems to make more > > difference than anything else, because you can set the work > > directory to a ramdisk, and do the entire build without touching the > > disk. > > Have you done actual comparisons? With SSDs, I don't expect a > significant difference. (There is none for doing a "make build" of > the base system.)
FWIW: A few days ago, we added additional zeroing to tmpfs and were discussing its performance. Another dev mentioned that their SSD is already typically faster than tmpfs.
