[distcc] avoiding work

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:40, Martin Pool wrote:
> Useful and venerable though autoconf is, it's performance is pretty
> terrible even on unix.  One of the distcc benchmarks is GNU hello,
> which takes about 15s to configure and 1s to compile.  

On this subject, has anyone heard of any useful autoconf replacement
projects?

It seems like one of those problems that really needs to be solved
better, but is just too painful for anyone to get far, especially when
the current solution mostly works.