Vijay Tatkar's Blog

« Sun SPARC Enterprise... | Main | Clarifying Sun Studi... »

Monday July 21, 2008

New Sun Studio Article: Accelerate Builds with Dmake
Sun Studio's dmake utility can accelerate complex application builds by building components in parallel. Learn how to configure a distributed build environment and get guidelines on makefile customization. This new article on the Sun Studio Developer Portal explains this in easy steps.
As a point of reference, when we turned this loose on Solaris (in the Solaris 9 timeframe), on a 4-CPU machine, it accelerated build times by roughly 3.6x (reducing ON builds from approximately 12 hours to a little over 3 hours). Those numbers: 12 hours down to 3-ish hours, tell the real story of a direct benefit to developers and integrators, not just to buildmasters or release engineers.
Dmake is also the default for builds in the project system that the Sun Studio IDE uses, so you get this benefit without having to think about it.
Posted by tatkar ( Jul 21 2008, 12:50:09 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]

Like this post?