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On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Leonardo Bras wrote:

> Both ccache and distcc seem very interesting, I will take my time to 
> study them better as they can solve some situations I face. Thanks for 
> sharing!
> 

You might also want to check out 'gcc -O0', 'gcc -fopt-info' and 'gcc 
--help=optimizers' etc to see if you can reduce the compute cost.

To reduce IO cost, my build tests always use 'make O=/some/path' where 
/some/path is on a tmpfs mountpoint.

HTH.

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