Use ccache for Travis builds. #611
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With this change the Travis builds on Linux+CMake use ccache, speeding up many of the builds. For example, the clang-tidy build goes from ~24m to ~13m:
Before:
https://travis-ci.org/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-cpp/jobs/386452738
After (with a warm cache):
https://travis-ci.org/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-cpp/jobs/386477710
In general, branches and PRs use the cache from the master branch, so most builds should experience an improvement.
The total build time did not improve that much because it is dominated by the TEST_INSTALL=yes build:
After (with a warm cache):
https://travis-ci.org/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-cpp/jobs/386477709
I would rather address that problem in a future PR, because I would rather see the current gains deployed.