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From: "Rogelio Serrano" <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] those funny gnu guys
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:09:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9951d2a0811142309x776b8735ib1b3713a76aab312@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aec4aa39d1e3e0207302bb0ee2aa8823@quanstro.net>

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:34 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
>
>

I just dont get it. How does distributed linking not help?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-15  7:09 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
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 [this message]
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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