On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:05:13 +0200 Matteo Croce <mcr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Pass the -pipe option to GCC, to use pipes instead of temp files. > On a slow AMD G-T40E CPU we get a non negligible 6% improvement > in build time. > > real 1m15,111s > user 1m2,521s > sys 0m12,465s > > real 1m10,861s > user 1m2,520s > sys 0m12,901s > > Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcr...@redhat.com> Why bother, on my machine (make -j12). Before real 0m6.320s user 0m30.674s sys 0m3.649s After (with -pipe) real 0m6.158s user 0m31.197s sys 0m3.532s So it is slower. Get a faster disk :-) Maybe allow "EXTRA_CFLAGS" to be passed to Makefile for those that have a burning need for this.
