I'm doing something where I frequently but unpredictably (i.e. I can't plan for it in advance) hit a snag that requires me to rebuild a large project. The rebuild takes a couple hours. During that time, I'm twiddling my thumbs and/or posting here, i.e. not getting anything useful done. But the delay is not long enough that I can really switch to another project for a while.
Anyone got any suggestions? How do you deal with this? It could be mitigated with a faster computer (I'm using a 1.2 ghz Pentium M) but the overall task isn't large enough to justify going out and buying one. Anyway, I did the same build on a 2 ghz Athlon 64 and was surprised that the speedup was only 35% or so. I'd have to get a multiprocessor box to obtain really substantial gains. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
