Re: libraries being removed from the archive
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 07:32:57 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Peter Mathiasson wrote:
>
>> "[...] distcc sends the complete preprocessed source code across the
>> network for each job."
>
> Hmm, OK, but that would just speedup the actual compilation. Granted,
> that's the largest chunk, but cpp/asm/ld could do with a speed-up too.
As a point of information, distcc runs the assembler remotely too (in
this case, on the x86). cpp's CPU usage is usually negligible, and while
ld can be slow it is often a small fraction of the total time.
Building a cross suite with the excellent Debian toolchain-source package
is easy, and I regularly use that to have several x86 machines help with ia64
builds.
For many packages the biggest problem is actually ./configure, since it is
slow and not parallelizable.
--
Martin
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