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[Martin Janitschke <imp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25.07.2014 11:04, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 08:59:23AM +0000, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Is is possible speed up building (in linux) some how? (without to buy a faster computer)
>> It looks it is not building using multiprocessor.
> 
> make -j4 helps (substitute number with processor numbers)
Besides this, you can also use ccache, build inside a ramdisk (if you've
got plenty of it), prefill the filesystem cache with the kicad sources
and your .ccache folder using vmtouch.

>> Also, every small change, it will took a lot of time by the linker to do its business.
>> I do believe the only way would be implement dynamic objects or someting but it will change drastically the architecture. :/
Small changes to the header files may end in a lot of missed cache hits
from ccache.

Bye,
imp