Distributed C++ compilation

[Dilip]

I saw this over at the Google open source blog:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.co...esign-for.html

50% improvement in compile time for the Linux kernel seems like a very
significant improvement. What percentage of the C++ community will
find this useful?

[Victor Bazarov]

Dilip wrote:

I saw this over at the Google open source blog:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.co...esign-for.html

50% improvement in compile time for the Linux kernel seems like a very
significant improvement. What percentage of the C++ community will
find this useful?

How is this C++ specific? If it isn't, don't ask "the C++ community",
ask the programming community at large, in 'comp.programming'.

Making things faster is a never-ending job. The sole purpose of making
computers is to compute things faster... Does C++ have any future?

V
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[Ian Collins]

Dilip wrote:

I saw this over at the Google open source blog:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.co...esign-for.html

50% improvement in compile time for the Linux kernel seems like a very
significant improvement. What percentage of the C++ community will
find this useful?

It looks rather old hat. I've been tweaking distributed build farms for
over a decade.

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Ian Collins.

[Rolf Magnus]

Dilip wrote:

>
I saw this over at the Google open source blog:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.co...esign-for.html

>
50% improvement in compile time for the Linux kernel seems like a very
significant improvement.

It's not 50% improvement in compile time, but in "build speed". Otherwise,
the 200% improvement with Samba would be rather impressing (being finished
before it even started).

What percentage of the C++ community will find this useful?

Considering that I don't have that many servers to push compile jobs to...