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Subject: Re: Anyone tried this compiler ?

Author: Kim Roper Jensen

Date: 03:16:55 11/26/03

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On November 26, 2003 at 06:03:08, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On November 26, 2003 at 05:54:40, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:
>
>>Hi All
>>
>>Just saw this on osnews http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5233 seems
>>rather nice, and is built by the samba guys...
>>
>>Anyone tried it yet ??
>
>distcc ist not really a compiler by itself. It's a program to distribute builds
>to several machines, using gcc as a compiler. Together with ccache (from the
>same people) can give a great speedup when compiling big packages.
>
>Unfortunately it doesn't work with other compilers, such as VC++. distcc/ccache
>is rather useful/popular in source-based Linux distro environments such as
>gentoo.
>
>Homepages:
> http://distcc.samba.org/
> http://ccache.samba.org/
>
>Sargon

from the osnews article:
As someone who is always looking to maximize performance and efficiency from my
computers, I was delighted to have stumbled upon a program named Distcc a while
back. According to their website distcc is a "fast, free distributed c/c++
compiler."

Just read the first lines and thought it was a special compiler, silly me..

/kim



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