On Thursday, 24 July 2025 15:36:57 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Javier Martinez wrote: > > El 24/7/25 a las 15:05, Michael escribió: > >> On Thursday, 24 July 2025 13:56:05 British Summer Time Javier > >> > >> Martinez wrote: > >>> To be more realistics you have to compite in equal conditions, > >>> compiling > >>> in ram for example. Maybe your harddisk is faster that his one. > >> > >> My OS is on an M.2 SSD and I also use a RAM tmpfs on this PC, but the > >> way > >> packages keep growing larger and larger I wonder how long before I > >> need more > >> RAM. ;-) > >> > >>> 8 dd if=/dev/urandom to ram would be fine IMO > >> > >> However, "... building packages in tmpfs is unlikely to provide any > >> benefit on > >> a modern system." > >> > >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs > > > > It avoids to made your ultra fast SSD burn > > That's the biggest reason I have portage's work directory on tmpfs. If > I start having to do it on a disk because of a lack of memory, I'll do > it on spinning rust to save my m.2 stick. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. What is LTO and should I enable something? I already need to > reboot soon for a newly rebuilt kernel. May as well do both.
Come on Dale, you know how to search the Gentoo wiki. ;-) It has some benefits, especially if you are building binaries to run on a resource constrained system, but it takes longer to build them and not all packages benefit from it. YMMV ...
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