Re: 6 DAY compile! Any volunteers for distributed build CPU sharing?
Re: 6 DAY compile! Any volunteers for distributed build CPU sharing?
- Subject: Re: 6 DAY compile! Any volunteers for distributed build CPU sharing?
- From: David L Goldsmith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:12:50 -0700
That's one for the books! (I imagine MicroSoft, Apple, etc., have build
jobs this order of magnitude or larger, but of course they have plenty
of processors under their own control.)
Personally, I'd approach Google: they're (ostensibly) benevolent
dictators with loads and loads of crunch. BOL.
DG
Helmut Brandt wrote:
Hello!
I have a simple, but very large, unix command line C program that I am
compiling. It consists of about 1000 separate source files, the
largest of which is 20 MegaBytes, the smallest about 16 KiloBytes
(source code).
I have just completed the initial compilation of this program on my
PowerBook G4, 1GHz. The compilation took approximately 6 DAYS.
Unfortunately, I have to compile it all again, as I forgot to turn on
a critical compiler flag. The total size of all the object files is
about 750MB!
Rather than wait another week for this to compile again, I was
wondering if anyone out there with a few spare CPU cycles would be
willing to let me do some distributed building on their machine?
I was perhaps hoping that an Intel Core 2 Duo running at 2GHz might be
about 5 times as fast as my machine. (2GHz instead of my 1GHz, and 2
processors instead of my 1, and perhaps another 25% Intel vs.
PowerPC??) As this is now a common configuration, I am hoping that
some good guy out there will lend me one of his cores!
So, if I could get a few volunteers, we could knock this baby out in
perhaps just a day (or, if anyone has an 8 core, 3 GHz beast, I'll bet
it can chew through this FAST).
If anyone is able to help in any way, I would appreciate it. I am
using X Code 2.4.1, (gcc 4.x), runnning on top of Tiger 10.4.9. I am
able to use distributed build with this version.
Thanks,
Helmut Brandt
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