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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Building Rockbox faster with make -jRe: Building Rockbox faster with make -j
From: Nils <deathtoallhumans_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:35:30 +0100 On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Boris Gjenero <boris.gjenero_at_gmail.com>wrote: > David Hall wrote: > >> Boris Gjenero wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a 4-core Intel Q6600 CPU, and -j 4 cuts the >>> build time in half, from about 10 minutes to about 5 minutes. >>> >> >> OT - but even that seems very slow. Are you using ccache? >> > > Yeah, I thought that was ridiculously slow. I assumed it was due to some > operations being slow on Cygwin. > > I was not using ccache. After installing it, reconfiguring ("Found and > uses ccache") and building once, I was able to build again from a clean > state with -j 4 in 4:30. > > -- > Boris > Boris, if you are looking for a major speedup, try building on native linux, i can do a build with make -j3 in about one minute on my 3 year old pentium dual core (using ccache) and your cpu is _much_ faster. Nils Received on 2009-03-06 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |