7+ days of dogfood
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Feb 12 15:41:11 UTC 2013
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Lars Engels wrote:
> I also dislike that src build times increased over the years since I run
> CURRENT on my notebooks (starting 7-CURRENT, now 10-CURRENT).
> Wouldn't it be possible to add a
> DO_NOT_BUILD_CLANG_AND_GCC_IF_NOTHING_CHANGED= yes switch to src.conf?
>
> Building clang takes ages and gcc is also pretty big...
devel/ccache really makes a gcc system buildworld a lot faster. I don't
know why more people don't use it; why recompile so many things that
have not changed?
My recollection of testing it with clang was that it did not make much
of an improvement. Could be better now.
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