Re:Speeding up C++ build times
by rjkaplan on Sunday April 28, 2024 @10:43PM
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I'm guessing the comment was downvoted because the suggestions are mentioned in the first paragraph of the article...
> After trying a few stopgap solutions—like purchasing M1 Maxs for our team—build times gradually reverted to their original pace; Ccache and remote caching weren’t enough either.
Re:Speeding up C++ build times
by gpderetta on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:31AM
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Parallelization is not a stop gap solution. Is the only scalable one as C++ projects tend to grow to multimilion lines of code easily. And with distcc (or similar) you do not need to buy your developers beefy workstations (although you should!).
> After trying a few stopgap solutions—like purchasing M1 Maxs for our team—build times gradually reverted to their original pace; Ccache and remote caching weren’t enough either.