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
