On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:34 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is just stupifying: > > http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1029797&cid=25761431 > > Due to a strange quirk in the way compilers are designed, it's (MUCH) faster > to build a dozen files that include every file in your project than to build > thousands of files. > > Once build times are down to 5 - 15 minutes you don't need distributed > compiling. The link step is typically the most expensive anyway, so > distributed compiling doesn't get you much. > > sorry for the noise. > > - erik > >
I just dont get it. How does distributed linking not help? -- Lay low and nourish in obscurity
