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Re:Actually Portable Executables by ed25519FUUU on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:56AM (#26293786)
Good optimization, thanks for the pointer!
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Re:Actually Portable Executables by matheusmoreira on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:30PM (#26299101)
It also reduces wear on storage devices. Why write temporary build artifacts to permanent memory after all? Gotta use those 32 GB of RAM for something.

Linux will automatically cache all source files in RAM because of the page table cache. Writes to slow storage devices are eliminated through tmpfs. Amazing really.

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