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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:34:47 -0500
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Subject: [9fans] those funny gnu guys
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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