> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:07:42AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > So buidd + distcc on a slow m68k/arm/whatever, and distccd on a fast > > P4 or Athlon, or even on several of those. This is expected to reduce > > the compile time to almost the same as it is on x86 :). > > I'm not sure that's true; but it would be interesting to know for > sure. Many packages spend a lot of time running tests and generating > documentation.
Maybe this can be compensated by running distccd on several fast x86 machines, and run parallel make while package building? Distcc is known to scale almost lineary for small number of hosts. I use distcc at regular basis and can confirm this. Perhaps someone who has access to both m68k and a fast x86 connected by a fast network should try this.
