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doc: improve ccache explanation
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ccache improves the build speed significantly only when the branch was
built before. Building fresh branches with major changes are not
benefited from ccache.

PR-URL: nodejs#50133
Fixes: nodejs#49967
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
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legendecas authored and alexfernandez committed Nov 1, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -543,7 +543,8 @@ export CC="ccache cc" # add to ~/.zshrc or other shell config file
export CXX="ccache c++" # add to ~/.zshrc or other shell config file
```

This will allow for near-instantaneous rebuilds even when switching branches.
This will allow for near-instantaneous rebuilds when switching branches back
and forth that were built with cache.

When modifying only the JS layer in `lib`, it is possible to externally load it
without modifying the executable:
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