On Tue, 19 May 2009 15:18:13 +0200 Branko Badrljica <bran...@avtomatika.com> wrote:
> I have /var/tmp on ext4 with delayed allocation on ext4 and 8GB RAM. > For me tmpfs wasn't worth the hassle, so i dropped it. I couldn't tell > the difference. In all this discussion about tmpfs, there has been no mention of the gcc "-pipe" option, which instructs the compiler to use RAM instead creating temporary files. Since gcc is the workhorse of the emerge process, it would seem that the "-pipe" option should accomplish results close to that observed with tmpfs. Frank Peters
