[distcc] avoiding work

[Martin Pool]

On  2 Feb 2004, Grahame Bowland <grahame at angrygoats.net> wrote:
> 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.

SCons rocks:

  http://distcc.samba.org/results.html#2003-01-28

-- 
Martin 
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