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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: RhinoBanga on June 10, 2003, 02:21:06 am
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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.
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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.
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/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!