Re: Ports to other architectures was Re: Fedora Core on the Alpha

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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:10, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Something just popped into my head: what about using distcc on the ARM
> machine, and then making the distcc client machines be fast x86 boxen
> where gcc is an x86->ARM crosscompiler?  That would work, no?

Running make takes moderate amounts of CPU time, as does transferring the 
files for the compile.  The CPU power of an ARM chip for such tasks is 
significantly less than that of a modern x86 server and will be a bottleneck.

It should work though.

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