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We used it for several massive C++ apps ~2012 and yes it was much faster than our local machines, although our machines at the time weren't state of the art but also weren't bad either. We had a pretty amazing on-prem lab full of Blades that we used for distcc, so I'm sure that helped deliver the lightning.

One thing people always overlook though with distcc is that while you compile remote, you always link local. That was the bulk of our build time and wasn't the fault of distcc. Object files would come at lightning speed (compared to pure local build) but linking was still non-trivial.

These days I'd bet a modern AMD would beat distcc in our situation due to latency times.