Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:31:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > Which would people prefer?  I little longer full build and do the 
> > modification on every object, or have a shorter full build, but every 
> > build will take that extra minute to do?
> 
> I have a very strong preference to do it per obj rather than at the end,
> that way it can be distributed and make these fancy smp boxen useful.
> 
> Bonus points if you can make distcc dig it.

Yes, the CC used in the script does indeed use distcc (if you are using 
it).

;-)

-- Steve

> 
> The vmlinux link path is the thing that is killing build performance,
> anything to shorten that is golden, anything increasing it needs _very_
> good justification.
> 
> 
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