On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, William "Chops" Westfield
<westfw@mac.com>wrote:

> > like compiling in RAM
> Compiling is typically disk-limited by speed of directory lookups, as the
> compiler chases down long strings of #include (or similar) files.  But I
> don't think it typically requires the sort of massive amounts of space
> you're talking about=85
>

Depends entirely on what's being compiled, of course. Try compiling
something like KDE4, or MongoDB, and monitor your disk usage.
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