Re: [Boost-users] Re: boost parallel build, will it get better?

David Abrahams wrote:

Daniel Goller writes:

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Hi,

i was wondering if there is a possibility boost (bjam?) will be supporting parallel builds better in the future

This really belongs on the Jamboost list: http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm#jamboost. I'm not sure any of us knew there was a problem with parallel builds.

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i was testing building with -j5 (-j5 is about the sweet spot at which distcc creates enough load on the helping XP3200 for this mac mini i work on)

distcc? XP3200? mac mini?

I probably don't really need to know what these mean, but I'm curious. <snip>

Distcc is a distributed version of GCC: http://distcc.samba.org/. Useful if you have a bunch of mostly idle computers hanging around, I believe. "XP3200" is perhaps a very condensed version of "PC with an Athlon XP 3200+ processor". "Mac mini" is a new product of, wossname, that computer company named after some kind of fruit. Ben.