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.
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