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Optimizing distcc

Posted by michael on from the barn-raising dept.

IceFox writes "Having fallen in love with distcc and its ability to speed up compiling (insert anyone who compiles like Gentoo users or Linux developers). I recently got the chance to dive deeper into distcc. By itself distcc will decrease your build times, but did you know that if you tweak a few things you can get a whole lot better compile times? Through a lot of trial and error, tips from others, profiling, testing and just playing around with distcc, I have put together a nice big article. It shows how developers can get a bigger bang for their buck out of their old computers and distcc with just a few changes."

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  1. Apple gcc on linux by rillian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was really happy to see Apple used distcc for their distributed compiles as well.

    Too bad it's so hard to build their gcc on other OSen. My linux desktop is much faster than my macos laptop, and it would be nice to be able to add it to the pool.

    Anyone have pointers on porting apple's toolchain?