Distributed Compilation: A Programmer's Delight | Linux Today

Distributed Compilation: A Programmer’s Delight

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 13, 2008

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“Reducing the build time for C/C++-based systems is one of the
major technical challenges any release or build engineer faces.
This article looks into some of the open source tool options
available that help speed up the build process by parallelizing the
activity: distributing the build process across multiple machines
in a local area network. The discussion in this article primarily
focuses on GNU make, due to its wide availability.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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