speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Gary Thorpe <gthorpe at myrealbox.com> writes:
> This effectively means that you cannot take advantage of SMP to
> compile FreeBSD's ports collection. That sounds like a big
> limitation...especially for people trying to speed up bulk builds.

We cannot be held responsible for race conditions in the Makefiles of
third-party software.

> Is "-pipe" still a good idea? It should provide a significant
> performance boost, if the process is spending a lot of time doing disk
> I/O, without using up a lot of memory.

-pipe is fine.

DES
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