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Regarding compilation, it's perfectly sensible: distcc has done that for a long time. Part of the Plan9 design (which is almost 30 years old at this point) was
by icebraining 8y ago
Regarding compilation, it's perfectly sensible: distcc has done that for a long time.
Part of the Plan9 design (which is almost 30 years old at this point) was the uniform access to computing resources across machines over the network. Unfortunately, we've mostly abandoned that and stuck with mainframe design.
- core-questions 8y agoIt always pains me to think of what Could Have Been when it comes to things like this. We should have the everything-is-a-file, perfectly network transparent system, but instead most people are still using the bastard child of DOS and VMS
- dTal 8y agoIt's even more paining when you begin to realise that nearly every problem humanity has falls into this category - the solutions exist and are known, but don't get used because we're stuck in a local maximum (one that usually involves bank accounts).