From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] those funny gnu guys
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:44:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60811141244y61a6d54ep5557fb7716996484@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aec4aa39d1e3e0207302bb0ee2aa8823@quanstro.net>
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reading slashdot is almost never worth the bandwidth or the time of your
life spent looking at it.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 18:34 erik quanstrom
2008-11-14 18:42 ` ron minnich
2008-11-14 20:44 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2008-11-14 22:09 ` erik quanstrom
2008-11-15 4:03 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-15 6:29 ` John Barham
2008-11-15 12:19 ` Uriel
2008-11-15 7:09 ` Rogelio Serrano
2008-11-17 6:06 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-11-17 6:56 ` Rogelio Serrano
2008-11-17 8:38 ` thagonzo
2008-11-18 0:44 ` sqweek
2008-11-18 4:23 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-11-18 14:29 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-18 14:41 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-15 4:03 erik quanstrom
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