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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:09:47 +0800
From: "Rogelio Serrano" <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] those funny gnu guys
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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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> sorry for the noise.
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> - erik
>
>

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

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