outrun VS sccache

While it's purpose is different it can be used to do distributed compiling, so I'll leave it here.

https://github.com/Overv/outrun

Since I was just going down this rabbit hole recently, I kind of wonder if it's possible to set the filesystem on something more like the BitTorrent protocol so things like the libraries/compilers/headers that are used during compilation dont all need to come from the main pc. It probably wouldn't be useful until you reached a stupid number of computers and you started reaching the limits of the Ethernet wire, but for something stupid that can run on a pi cluster it would be a fun project.

Your mention of compile heavy workloads reminded me of a project called Outrun, it offloads work to another machine. All it seems to require is Python, Fuse3 and ssh.

Awesome! This write up is satisfyingly detailed. Prior work in this space includes Plan9 of course, as well as the python project Outrun, which has it's own RPC-based FUSE FS: https://github.com/Overv/outrun

Other approachs to deployment in particular include the functional package managers Nix and Guix, which can create lightweight application images, and could probably be cobbled together into some sort of remote environment replication even across architectures. As I read on, I thought less about how this compares with Guix in regards to application/environment packaging and more about how these things could be glued together in interesting ways, because I think the intro leads in through slightly off-label examples, if that makes sense. Application packaging isn't what this addresses at the end of the day, but it's no less fascinating for it.

Use icecream or sccache. sccache supports distributed builds.

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/Distribute...

Worth noting that the first commit in sccache git repository was in 2014 (https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/commit/115016e0a83b290dc2...). So I suppose that what "happened" happened waay back.

If you have lots of shared dependencies, maybe try sccache?

I'm going to set up sccache [0] to use it tomorrow. We use MSVC, so EFS is off the cards.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/S3.md

I think the primary benefit of pre-built procmacros will be for build servers which don't use a persistent cache (like sccache), since they have to compile all dependencies every time. But IMO improved support for persistent caches would be a better investment compared to adding support for pre-built procmacros.

Checkout https://github.com/mozilla/sccache

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache is another option which addresses the use cases of both icecream and ccache (and also supports Rust, and cloud storage of artifacts, if those are useful for you)

That being said a compilation cache, eg the de-facto standard for Rust: sccache (https://github.com/mozilla/sccache) will help to compile and store some of the build artifacts centralized - still for each crate version + build profile (RUSTFLAGS) combination.