Passing the baton for distcc
The time's come for me to pass over the baton of distcc to a new maintainer, Fergus Henderson.
Fergus, along with his Google colleagues Nils Klarlund and Craig
Silverstein, have been working for some time on a large new extension,
distcc-pump. distcc up to the last release I made always did
preprocessing on the client machine, then sent the preprocessed source to
a server for compilation. This keeps things pretty simple and works well
across a wide domain but does eventually reach a scalability limit. With
distcc-pump more of the work can be distributed. It looks
like there will also be support for gcc precompiled headers coming in
soon, in collaboration with Sascha Demetrio. A release candidate for 3.0
is now up on the new distcc site, and
they're churning through the several outstanding patches.
I'm very touched by his words about the project. Thanks, Fergus.
posted Thu 19 Jun 2008 in /projects/distcc | link
Sydney Film Festival
Great films (Cronocrimines, Revue, Sukiyaki Western Django, My Winnipeg, ...) and the State Theatre is at the height of it's pre-Depression glory.
Amazingly awful online ticketing though. I had to wait three days from booking a multi-pass to being able to book in to particular films. My advice is to buy paper tickets at the box office like we did last century. The woman behind us in the queue who came down from Brisbane for the long weekend had spent three hours on Ticketmaster trying to book a few movies.
posted Wed 11 Jun 2008 in /media | link
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