Saw this message come in to our support list a few days ago: Our company has recently begun to use ElectricAccelerator, and the user community is quite happy with the improved build performance. Frankly, I’m astonished at the speeds we’re seeing. Awesome. That is all.

Previously we have compared the performance of ElectricAccelerator and distcc when building the Linux 2.6 kernel. In what I hope will be the first of several followups, I will repeat the experiment with different software packages, to determine whether that result was a one-off, or whether ElectricAccelerator really is consistently better performing than distcc. In [Read More →]