<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is true, and distcc is easy to enable and makes a difference even if you add just one additional processor.<br>I cut my compile time nearly in half by adding a 1.2ghz athlon to my 600mhz VIA.<br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us><br>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 2:16:59 PM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Which distro for new system?<br><br><div><br>On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:<br>> Gentoo<br>> seems to be one of the last distros you see recommended for mythtv, <br>> but I<br>> really
think it's arguably one of the best for the purpose. I was <br>> glad to<br>> see others here bring it up.<br><br>One caveat -- if you're building a miniITX system based on one of <br>VIA's processors, you should either have a lot of time on your hands, <br>or plan on using distcc to let another machine help with <br>compilation. gcc is extraordinarily slow on VIA CPUs, probably <br>because of their limited cache sizes. If you offload some of the <br>compilation to another machine with distcc, things will go much faster.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>