icecream VS gg

Compare icecream vs gg and see what are their differences.

icecream

Distributed compiler with a central scheduler to share build load (by icecc)

gg

The Stanford Builder (by StanfordSNR)
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icecream gg
16 5
1,541 985
1.1% 0.2%
0.0 0.0
4 months ago about 1 year ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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icecream

Posts with mentions or reviews of icecream. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.

gg

Posts with mentions or reviews of gg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-07.
  • Migrating Your Open Source Builds Off Of Travis CI
    5 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2022
    Another interesting option if you are feeling adventurous is using AWS lambda as your build executor.  I have no idea how feasible this is, however, the gg project from Stanford looks interesting.  It attempts to use AWS lambdas for running builds at the maximum possible parallelism.
  • Distcc – distribute builds across multiple machines simultaneously
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2021
    Running it locally will always be faster as long as your machine is not a bottleneck (#cores, ram, ...). I think the use-case for distcc et al is to enable less-powerful machines to run builds faster by levering other machines. That’s exactly what we use it for at work. Our developers have not-so-powerful laptops and with distcc/icecc they can utilize the power of our build agents in the server room.

    Also interesting to read: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg

What are some alternatives?

When comparing icecream and gg you can also consider the following projects:

sccache - Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.

ccache - ccache – a fast compiler cache

keppel - Regionally federated multi-tenant container image registry

compiler-benchmark - Benchmarks compilation speeds of different combinations of languages and compilers.

cmake-init-conan-example - cmake-init generated executable project with Conan integration

bazelisk - A user-friendly launcher for Bazel.

reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System

cmake-init-vcpkg-example - cmake-init generated executable project with vcpkg integration

safeql - Validate and auto-generate TypeScript types from raw SQL queries in PostgreSQL.

Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

safeql - Composable / async / functional / type-safe / parallel-pipelined queries and relations without SQL injection or N+1s.