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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:24:21AM +0200, Martin Janitschke wrote:
> 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.

In practice I found ccache not very useful. Also take aside at least 5GB
for it, otherwise it usually spills over.

> Small changes to the header files may end in a lot of missed cache hits
> from ccache.

Reason for ccache not being useful :D

distcc is way better, if another box is available.

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