I have a plain old mechanical disk too, but I have 32 G of RAM, enough that disk access is not relevant to my (unified) build times. After a build, I have 12 to 14 G of RAM used for cache, so I suppose that disk performance is still relevant if you have <= 16 G of RAM, yeah.
Benoit 2014-07-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Geoff Lankow <ge...@darktrojan.net>: > Ah yes, I forgot to say. I am on Linux. I've found using RAM instead of my > (mechanical) disk saves about 5 minutes of a roughly half-hour build. > > GL > > > On 19/07/14 16:24, Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> What OS are we talking about? >> >> (On Linux, ramdisks are mountpoints like any other so that would be >> trivial; but then again, on Linux, the kernel is good enough at using >> extra >> RAM for disk cache automatically, that you get the benefits of a RAMdisk >> automatically). >> >> Benoit >> >> >> 2014-07-18 22:39 GMT-04:00 Geoff Lankow <ge...@darktrojan.net>: >> >> Today I tried to build Firefox on a RAM disk for the first time, and >>> although I succeeded through trial and error, it occurs to me that there >>> are probably things I could do better. Could someone who regularly does >>> this make a blog post or an MDN page about their workflow and some tips >>> and >>> tricks? I think it'd be useful to many people but I (read: Google) >>> couldn't >>> find anything helpful. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> GL >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
