[openbeos] StatCacheServer to speed up Jam

Axel Dörfler wrote on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:57:25 +0100 (MET):
> You only need "jam" itself. However, having the StatCacheServer running 
> in the background will speed up jam considerably, like factor 60 for 
> small operations (because it works around the cache shortcomings in 
> BeOS) - it's definitely a good idea to make it part of the package for 
> BeOS. It's only important, though, when you run jam more than once, ie. 
> while developing something.
> You should run StatCacheServer in your UserBootscript in that case, 
> just besides the flock server.

So that's how it's used.  Thanks for the tip!  I've found it annoyingly
slow when building just one app, like StyledEdit, with repeated jam
invocations taking ages.  Seems less annoying now - guess it's better.

With StatCacheServer, a "jam" invokation in the StyledEdit directory
takes 12 seconds (when it's already built and on the 2nd run of jam).
Without StatCacheServer, it takes 30 seconds.

- Alex

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