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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
>
>