On Wed, Jul 26, 2017, at 09:05 PM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > Yesterday I published sccache 0.2 to crates.io, so you can now `cargo > install sccache` and get the latest version (it'll install to > ~/.cargo/bin). If you build Firefox on Linux or OS X you can (and > should) use sccache in place of ccache for local development. It's as > simple as adding this to your mozconfig (assuming sccache is in your > $PATH): > > ac_add_options --with-ccache=sccache > > The major benefit you gain over ccache is that sccache can cache Rust > compilation as well, and the amount of Rust code we're adding to Firefox > is growing quickly. (We're on track to enable building Stylo by default > soon, which will add quite a bit of Rust.) > > On my several-year-old Linux machine (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ > 3.40GHz, 32GB, SSD), if I build; clobber; build with sccache enabled the > second (fully-cached) build completes in just over 4 minutes: > > 4:11.92 Overall system resources - Wall time: 252s; CPU: 69%; Read > bytes: 491520; Write bytes: 6626512896; Read time: 60; Write time: > 1674852 > > sccache still isn't completely straightforward to use on Windows[1] but > I aim to fix that this quarter so that using it there will be just as > simple as on other platforms.
Windows support sounds very exciting! Will it support cache sharing? Kanru _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
