[distcc] Re: distributed compilation with gcc: distcc

[Martin Pool]

On 23 Jul 2002, Ben Elliston <bje at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org> writes:
> 
>   Martin> I suspect the easiest thing will be to share the builddir over NFS.
>   Martin> Is that possible?
> 
> That depends entirely on the user's own preference.  I, for one, would
> have no objections sharing the builddir over NFS, but I wonder how the
> net performance will be after paying that penalty.

It ought to be pretty good, if the machines have enough memory to
cache the built compiler and so on, because once the files are
generated they won't change.

-- 
Martin