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[RhinoBanga]

Jim (and Matt, Nikolay too),

I can appreciate how big MC is so when I found this I thought of you:

http://www.xoreax.com/main.htm


It's a distributed compiler for the PC.


I am evaluating it at my company and the initial results are very encouraging indeed.

With a small farm of 5 PC's I am seeing a 4:1 speed increase with no perceivable impact on the user's PC.

To put that in perspective I have a program here that takes 12 minutes to compile locally.   Using incredibuild it takes 3  

The downside is the cost but the major upside is the gain in productivity.

[Matt]

Interesting.  Maybe if we get some free time we'll play with it.

Linking MC is what's killer.  Even with top-of-the-line PC's, it takes 20 - 30 seconds for every small change.

[RhinoBanga]

/me dreams of 30 seconds.

One of our applications (called Pace) takes 6 minutes on my P4 1.7ghz with 512mb ram to link.

I just installed a few more PC's into the farm and now building on average now takes 50s when it used to take 6 minutes


You should try the 30 day trial.

It took me 5 minutes to download and install.   It seamlessly integrates with MSDev/VS.NET and doesn't touch your source code in any way which is a big plus.


Trust me you'll wonder how you ever lived without it!