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[Jonas Diemer <diemer@...>]

Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 16:03:33 schrieb Dick Hollenbeck:
> I figure I will reserve about 5 gb RAM as a ramdisk, copy all the stuff
> into there, and compile out of RAM. The whole thing should build in just
> a few seconds.

If caching in Linux works correctly (which I have no reason to assume it 
wouldn't), this shouldn't be necessary. Linux will use unused RAM to keep HDD 
contents cached.