howto/ccache – MacPorts – Trac

6/6/2008 in Unix Notes, Utilities Notes by face | No comments

howto/ccache – MacPorts – Trac

This HOWTO covers how to enable building with ccache. It is a compiler cache. It uses the gcc -E switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied from cache. The effect is that packages frequently compile 5-10 times faster than they would otherwise.

We’ll see how this changes behavior – installed 2008-06-06 05:00:00