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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
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 writes:
> Hi
>
> I have a 1mio LOC project and it takes multiple hours to
> build and rebuild. The C/C++ world has a nice tools (ccache
> is well known here) which cache the output of the compiler.
> This especially speeds up the time for a "make clean;make".
>
> Is there such a thing for Ada in general and gcc's gnat
> specially? Any other way to speed up the compilation?

ccache does not work with GNAT (I tried it).  However, "make clean" is
seldom necessary where I work, and "gnatmake -m" does minimal
recompilation.  This really speeds things up.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.