Re: [Boost-users] Re: boost parallel build, will it get better?

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-21 16:40:28

David Abrahams wrote:
> Daniel Goller <morfic_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>i was wondering if there is a possibility boost (bjam?) will be
>>supporting parallel builds better in the future
> 
> 
> This really belongs on the Jamboost list:
> http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm#jamboost.  I'm not sure
> any of us knew there was a problem with parallel builds.
> 
> 
>>i was testing building with -j5 (-j5 is about the sweet spot at
>>which distcc creates enough load on the helping XP3200 for this mac
>>mini i work on) 
> 
> 
> distcc?  XP3200?  mac mini?
> 
> I probably don't really need to know what these mean, but I'm curious.
<snip>

Distcc is a distributed version of GCC: <http://distcc.samba.org/>. 
Useful if you have a bunch of mostly idle computers hanging around, I 
believe.  "XP3200" is perhaps a very condensed version of "PC with an 
Athlon XP 3200+ processor".  "Mac mini" is a new product of, wossname, 
that computer company named after some kind of fruit.

Ben.