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Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] personal compile-farm ?
From: Martin Guy <martinwguy@gmail.com>
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On 9/5/09, Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> For those who have a multi-core compile-farm at home, is there a
>  >> largely noticeable difference in speed?
>
> Sorry, that should read 'difference in speed for builds'.

I built a 12-cpu one (using 400MHz pentiums, the maximum MHz/price for
old junk on ebay at the time!) and got pretty much linear speedup
using distcc with 2 jobs on each CPU.

    M