reading slashdot is almost never worth the bandwidth or the time of your life spent looking at it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, erik quanstrom <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:quanstro@quanstro.net">quanstro@quanstro.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">this is just stupifying:<br>
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<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1029797&amp;cid=25761431" target="_blank">http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1029797&amp;cid=25761431</a><br>
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Due to a strange quirk in the way compilers are designed, it&#39;s (MUCH) faster to build a dozen files that include every file in your project than to build thousands of files.<br>
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Once build times are down to 5 - 15 minutes you don&#39;t need distributed compiling. The link step is typically the most expensive anyway, so distributed compiling doesn&#39;t get you much.<br>
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sorry for the noise.<br>
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- erik<br>
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