On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:43:43PM +0000, 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.)
If you're really interested I could probably produce some benchmarks from
one of our build machines, but I did notice a modest increase in performance
doing everything in RAM.
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Tati Chevron
Perl and FORTRAN specialist.
SWABSIT development and migration department.
http://www.swabsit.com
