On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:40:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Sure, if you want to keep the build tree around, you would probably not 
> > use branches. 
> 
> Side note: it's often faster to recompile, if your project has a good 
> build system.
> 
> For example, for the kernel, I can literally rebuild my whole kernel 
> (which is just what I use on _that_ machine) in about 16 seconds. This is 
> _not_ using ccache or anything else - it's rebuilding the whole tree with 
> -j16.
> 

Is it after make mrproper (wow)? Or is it when your branches are
"recent"? Because for me (and well, I dont have that beefy boxes as you
do) swithing between "for-linus" and "next" that based off a revision in
vicinity of 2.6.xx-rc1 and "work" which tracks the tip of your tree
takes time to rebuild.

-- 
Dmitry
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