[sldev] Is there a way to compile the SL viewer faster?

[dale at daleglass.net]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:02:54AM -0400, Tobias Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after the good tips in this mailing list, I switched to a SATA RAID 1, 
> WD Raptor 10000rpm.
> It reduced the link time from 4:40min to 2:00min.
> 
> -Tobias

I haven't had the time to run all the tests I wanted yet. Planning to
try later today:

Build on the same hardware with /tmp on hard disk
Build it with /tmp and the whole source tree on tmpfs

That last one doesn't seem to be very practical as it'd require some
sort of sync mechanism to work like that, but it should provide an
indication of how far it's possible to improve things by improving
storage.

If I get bored enough during the weekend, I've got another test in mind:

Make a little Debian install on tmpfs, chroot into it, and build the
whole thing from RAM, with no hard disk usage at all.

I wonder, did anybody try to run a distcc farm set up like that? For
distcc it could actually be practical. Make a box that when booting
copies the whole install into RAM and chroots into it, and when shutting
down rsyncs to disk if needed.

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