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Hi Nathan, there was a brief discussion of this idea on the distcc mailing list: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/distcc/2003q1/000697.html Regarding my own setup however, I had a 667MHZ PowerBook, and 4 933MHZ x86/Linux boxes. I managed to speed up gcc builds by a factor of between 2 and 3 (using make -j4), as well as keep the PowerBook's fan from going on (ie it was doing minimal work). At one point, I managed to find a couple more Linux boxes, and just for kicks, I did an 8 way build, but the improvement was less than 20%. My suspicion is that network and disk speed become an issue at that point. Cheers. Dara P.S. If you're just building one application, this should actually be pretty straightforward. Simply modify the .o rule in your makefile into .i, .s and .o steps. I tried that too, and it worked, it's just I was building so many things that it became impractical to keep fiddling with makefiles. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sources.redhat.com
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