On 14/11/2010 4:21 PM, Derrick Coetzee wrote:
In my experience, the use of temporary files is not that bad (for example, gcc uses multiple temporary files in the course of compiling a .c file). I once did a test build of the Linux kernel on a RAM disk instead of the real disk and the difference in build time was less than 1%.
That's not a very good test: the kernel build uses the -pipe option of GCC and will not use temporary files, ramdisk or no. :-) The only difference you might see was the actual output files.
-- Coren / Marc