reading slashdot is almost never worth the bandwidth or the time of your life spent looking at it.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 > >
