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[Joachim Reichel <>]

Hi,

>> Since cmake has proper dependency
>> analysis and the
>> generated makefiles only rebuild the source files that need
>> to get
>> rebuild, ccache won't help here, right?
> This depends upon whether you make clean or not on your project. My 
> personal workflow seems to get about a 50% hit rate on the cache.

but why would one use "make clean" if you have proper dependency
tracking? Unless I'm missing something a simple "make" (without "make
clean") will recompile exactly those translation units that ccache can
not serve from the cache because the cached version is outdated.

Joachim