Blog FeedElectricAccelerator vs distcc – samba reloaded
In an earlier post I compared the performance of ElectricAcclerator and distcc by building samba using each tool in turn on the same cluster. In that test I found that Accelerator bested distcc at suitably high levels of parallelism, but that distcc narrowly beat Accelerator at lower levels of parallelism. At the time I chalked the difference up to slightly higher overhead associated with Accelerator. But you must have known I couldn’t just leave it at that. I had to know where the overhead was coming from, and eliminate it, if possible. The exciting conclusion is after the break.
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