[NovemberWhiskey]

We used to use distcc (2007 time period) for the daily builds of one of our large, in-house C++ products - order of 10M LOC.

In principle, it was a good use-case with a highly modular structure and a clearly defined but chunky build graph.

In practice, it did work, but throwing more hardware at the problem on a single host turned out to be faster than the existing distcc setup and had much reduced operational complexity.

We could probably have tuned it further with distcc plus the new hardware, but we achieved the performance target we were looking for.

[arcticbull]

This lines up with my experiences using it last time.