What is this, exactly?  (For those of us who do not use this program, or ones like it.)  It notice it does have something ot do with elemental, but it's hard to tell what.

In the GC2 days, only your machine would compile the code. Most of the time this takes less than a minute, but when you had to REBUILD (in crunch this could be up to 4 times a day) you were left twiddling your thumbs for 20+ minutes.

Incredibuild sends your code to compile on other machines, so building and rebuilding is EXTREMELY fast.  Elemental's rebuild time on Incredibuild is 2-4 minutes. A native recompile is up to approx 45 minutes.

So yes, very cool, and increasingly necessary

Wow, that is cool. I need to start using that to compile my application at work. Right now, I can take a coffee break, a health break (ahem!), go for a walk, and then watch the last minute go by... Only to rinse and repeat because I missed some silly issue

I like this idea...... my expericane with coding has made "compiling......." one of my least favorite phrases.

Sounds cool.  It must also cut down on staff doing this

I like how Stardock gets their developers nice machines: 4 cores and up from the picture.

You mean the Japanese way?

Incredibuild is definitely fun to play with and can make a huge difference.  There is an awful lot of other things you can do to improve compile times as well.  Here's a few articles you might be interested in (assuming you haven't come across them before):

http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/precompiledheaders.html

http://gamesfromwithin.com/the-care-and-feeding-of-pre-compiled-headers

http://gamesfromwithin.com/how-incredible-is-incredibuild

Some of the articles are a bit old, but the advice on how to use pre-compiled headers, forward declarations and code structure etc is all good.

It's so incredible this is the second time you've posted a thread about it right?

I could've sworn the first one was posted months ago...

It's not quite Smalltalk, but on the other hand, you can actually make games with it...

Precompiled headers have bad side effects sometimes (like making your headers unusable without including the pch because you forgot something, and it doesn't show until you actually try to give the .h to a client of your framework).

Your incredibuild is awesome because you have a lot of cores to run it upon. I counted 45 cores being used and then there's a crollbar. That's a lot of machines and must speed the process a lot indeed.