Optimizing distcc

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."

Comments

ccache

[Lord of Ironhand]

ccache is also nice for optimizing compiling. He probably mentioned it in the article, but since it seems /.-ed I wouldn't know... and by the time you've got both distcc and ccache running the article might be available again so you can read if you did it the right way :-)

Re:behind the XCode curtain

[jcr]

Yes, it is. This was described in the XCode session at WWDC last year.

I had a project that took about 15 minutes to build on my Dual G4. I turned on distributed builds in XCode, and it dropped to 2 minutes. Turns out that about a dozen of my collegues on my subnet are running the same build of our developer tools as I am.

distcc rocks.. Whoever thought it up should get the appropriate "special award for extreme cleverness."

-jcr