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Distributed Compilation, a Programmer's Delight

Posted by kdawson on from the less-time-for-wacraft dept.

cyberpead writes in with a Developerworks article on the open source tool options that can help speed up your build process by distributing the process across multiple machines in a local area network.

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  1. What about Excuse #1? by dsginter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry - compiling

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  2. Minor error by pipatron · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a minor error in the article, which claims that your servers need access to the source. distcc was designed to not need this.

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    c++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */
  3. In other news by adonoman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot readership plummets to an all-time low as programmers actually have to work.

  4. Preprocessing in C by Frans+Faase · · Score: 4, Informative

    I guess you are refering to the preprocessing step of C and C++ compilers, which was really a lame hack, I think. If you have a lot of include files, preprocessing produces large intermediate files, which contain a lot of overlapping code, that has to be compiled over and over again.

    Preprocessing should have been removed a long time ago, but nasty backwards compatability issue, it was never done. Other languages, such as Java and D, solve this problem in a much better way. Just as did TurboPascal with its TPU files in the late 1980's.