I came across this project today: HellFire Compiler Daemon, read more
hear
http://stopcoding.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/hfcd-pick-your-compiler-speed-how-about-10x/
HFCD enables you to compile your large Flex/AS3 app remotely on a
powerful server, here's a quote from one of the more recent blog
posts: "Recently I’ve received an email from a Flex developer. He told
me that his development team has been using HFCD for Flex development.
What impressed me was his team hardware setup. Basically, his team of
developers connect Flex Builder running on their laptops to multiple
instances of HFCD running on a powerful LAN server."
And what a server that is:
OS: Solaris 10
CPU: Dual quad-core Xeon 2.8ghz (two threads per core — OS reports 16 cores)
Memory: 32GB
Ethernet: 4 connected Ethernet connections (mutliplexed between Solaris Zones)
Here is the performance speedup with HFCD in Flash Builder:
Setup Number of Processors
Build Time
Flex Builder 3, Flex 3.4.1 2
35s
Flex Builder 3, Flex 3.4.1, HFCD 3 2
24s
Flex Builder 3, Flex 3.4.1, HFCD 3 4
12s
Flash Builder 4, Flex 4.0.0 2
12s
Flash Builder 4, Flex 4.0.0, HFCD 4 2
7.7s
Flash Builder 4, Flex 4.0.0, HFCD 4 4
3.9s
That might be an interesting approach for very large SWF10 apps, like
Webtop. HFCD has Ant integration as well:
http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/doc/HFCD-Ant-Task-Language-Reference.pdf
Some blog posts: http://stopcoding.wordpress.com/tag/hellfire-compiler-daemon/
