Re: ramdisk and build time bottle neck

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How fast of a build are you shooting for? More RAM and especially faster
hard drives make a difference. A full-up build should take less than 15
minutes (on my machine the average is about 12) and I don't do that very
often, usually it's a process of rebuilding a driver or a piece of the
system and running makeimg.

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"Thomas Spellman" <no@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've been asked to do a test of putting some parts of the build tree on
> a ramdisk to see if it reduces the build time. My impression thus far
> is that the primary bottle neck is CPU time, and that it would be better
> to do targeted builds of only changed sections of code rather than
> trying to use ramdisks to make complete rebuilds faster. What do you
> guys think? Is there a role for a ramdisk to decrease build times?
>
> Also, how does one seperate the platform tree out to a ramdisk?
>
> T


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