[linux-audio-dev] Remedy for long compile times

[Robert Jonsson]

Hi guys,

I thought I would share some info about some utilities I found recently with regards to overly painful compile times.

We have done some fairly extensive Corba based stuff at work, the last few months. Needless to say the compile times we have had for these beasts are numbing. Standard solution is of course faster machines, but there are some utils that can help if you got some extra machines at your disposal.

Have a look at
http://gecc.sourceforge.net/
or
http://distcc.samba.org/

Both these projects (where distcc seem more mature) provide the possibility to distribute compilations over several machines.

Another solution would be to rewrite everything in Java and use Jikes :-D...err perhaps not, but it's amazing how fast compilations are using java and jikes...

Regards,
Robert
- reinventor of the wheel