Improve collaborative build times with ccache
By Martin C. Brown2004-11-08
Resources
• Download ccache and distcc from Samba.org.
• If you need help compiling software such as ccache and distcc from sources, check out the Compiling and installing software from sources tutorial (developerWorks, August 2000).
• For an introduction to the tmpfs filesystem, see Daniel Robbins' article Common threads: Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 3: Using the virtual memory (VM) filesystem and bind mounts (developerWorks, September 2001).
• For a good introduction to using GCC on AIX on IBM eServer™ pSeries® machines, read Tips and tricks of using the GNU C/C++ compiler on AIX (developerWorks, October 2003).
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Tutorial Pages:
» How to squeeze more speed out of your compilations
» Using ccache
» Combining ccache and distcc
» Statistics
» Summary
» Resources
First published by IBM DeveloperWorks
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