Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au (Paul Hampson) writes:

> That'll work. _All_ distcc sends to the crosscompiler is preprocessed c
> code to be compiled into object code. So the source-code building widget
> is compiled remotely, run locally, and the results are sent to compile
> remotely.

Oh, I see now.  I was misunderstanding what distcc did.  Very clever!

This might not account for much of the time. I know that libc and X
compilation spends a huge amount of time in header file inclusion
work.  It works for those cases.

But other cases spend lots of time doing things like outline tracing
and other non-compilation activities.  But still, something like this
could well make a huge dent.