linux.conf.au/debiancon: January 2003
Debian Development List: debian-devel

Subject: Re: ccache for the autobuilders?
From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:23:44 +0900
 
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> cum veritate scripsit:

> The same package: almost never
> the same file: often, with every new compile.
> 
> Just take into account that a package contains 50 .c files that need
> to be compiled.  An updated package often only changes packaging or
> 10% of .c files, leaving 45 remaining the same.  These 45 files would
> benefit of ccache.

I'm pretty doubtful if ccache is able to cache so much
data. We have 5000 source packages.


regards,
        junichi