Re: GOP-PROP 4: lessons from 2.14

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>

> > On a tangent: at Google I am working on a side-project that
> > essentially is distcc on steroids; it will allow any compilation
> ...
> > It could speed up GUB and regtest checking for those that have access
> > to several machines.
>
> Cool project, but I don't think our limitation is processing
> power.  My desktop is idle at least 95% of the time, so I could
> dedicate a lot more horsepower to GUB if necessary, and the
> problem with regtest checking is one of organization: managing
> volunteers to look at the output.


For a standard "make" from scratch, the limitation is almost certainly 
processing power.  On my (single core) Ubuntu, by far the slowest activity 
is getting lilybook to generate all the snippets, and this is completely CPU 
bound.

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Phil Holmes