Re: speeding up Octave compile

[Rik]

On 06/18/2011 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> I've frequently whined about this in the past. The proposed solution
> was "compile with hardware that has 16 cores". :-(
> 
> I don't think anything can be done. I've used ccache which gives me a
> slight speedup. Also, don't compile with -O2 when you're debugging.
> That also considerably slows down the compilation and is rarely
> relevant while you're developing.
Daniel,

I've had even better luck with ccache and definitely recommend using it.
For instance, I just benchmarked 'touch src/ov-fcn.h; make -j2' and it was
15 seconds since all the re-linking could use the cached versions.

--Rik