I saw (reading my referrer logs :-) people were interested in distcc
with Wine, so I thought I would add it to distcc's performance
benchmark.
Across three machines I saw a 2.58x speedup -- details are attached.
The machines were all 1GB, 1700MHz Pentium IV with a 100Mbps switched
connection. Building on just one took 22m57s, and across all three
took 8m53s. There is probably still some scheduling inefficiency
here, which I hope to reduce over the next few months.
I'm not sure what was happening with the person who saw little change.
Perhaps they had distcc misconfigured, or perhaps they hit a bug.
Either way I would be interested in hearing the details
($DISTCC_HOSTS, etc) and seeing if I can help fix it.
I hope you find ccache and distcc useful. Wine is a cool project.
Please cc me on replies.
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Martin