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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. so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    An even better solution is to use Codewarrior or Visual C++. They compile 3-4 faster then gcc and give you better code, too.

  2. Before submitting your own site... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Make sure that mawfucker can withstand the power of one million GEEKS!

    Seacrest OUT!

  3. I'm so sick.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm so sick and tired of hearing about Gentoo. There are other distributions.

  4. 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?

  5. Re:Missed the best point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So you wrote an intro to distcc for people who alreay know how to use it?