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Date:      Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:57:21 +0100
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Gary Thorpe <gthorpe@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu>, Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???
Message-ID:  <861wz2u9am.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <43D11499.8040808@myrealbox.com> (Gary Thorpe's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:49:29 -0500")
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Gary Thorpe <gthorpe@myrealbox.com> writes:
> This effectively means that you cannot take advantage of SMP to
> compile FreeBSD's ports collection. That sounds like a big
> limitation...especially for people trying to speed up bulk builds.

We cannot be held responsible for race conditions in the Makefiles of
third-party software.

> Is "-pipe" still a good idea? It should provide a significant
> performance boost, if the process is spending a lot of time doing disk
> I/O, without using up a lot of memory.

-pipe is fine.

DES
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