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		londons_explore on June 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler > distcc sends the complete preprocessed source code across the network for each job, s I assume that for template-heavy c++, that could easily be hundreds of gigabytes for 1 gigabyte of c++ code to compile...? If you're working from a laptop, surely the wifi connection will by far be the bottleneck?

maccard on June 1, 2023 [–]

It is. These systems (inctedibuild, fastbuild) tend to work extremely well but are network bottlenecked. You need a fast, low latency connection.

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