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Ask HN: Do you use a second local build server?

4 pointsby valtyover 1 year ago
I run an M1 MacBook Pro as my main development machine and have used MacBooks for a long time. I run a lot of heavy C++ compilation tasks.<p>I recently thought about augmenting my setup with a Mac M2 Studio Ultra, and offloading all compilation tasks over there.<p>Do any of you supplement your primary machine with other local ones? Or cloud ones?

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DamonHDover 1 year ago
I have, but my M1 MBA is my most powerful machine now. My servers are low-power (eg low enough consumption to be entirely off-grid) RPis and a small virtual machine in the cloud.<p>I used to orchestrate tens to hundreds of desktop machines and servers overnight for banking clients for batch runs and so on, so I know how it can work nicely.<p>For now I concentrate on getting decent parallelism out of my jobs, since all of my machines are multi-core.