Compile Times Improved ?

[AgentXen]

I was wondering what has been done about the compile times in Half-Life 2. Will they be 64 times longer?!
Well i know thats not going to happen unless you use the whole virtual space they give you. But I mean that in HL1 They took like 1 hour. and thats not useing all of the space. Just 1/3. But in HL2 They Use a lot more space. like 50 times as much. Does that mean maps will take Hours and Hours and Hours to compile?!

 

[[Matt]]

ask valve.... not us...

 

[CordlessPen]

If you look around in the sticky ''info from Valve only'', Gabe talks about it somewhere.

Use the search function if you don't feel like looking through 17 pages.

Quick answer: Yes, they're improved

Edit: typo

 

[Hudson]

i know i read that compile times are reduced, its in one of the interviews, but i dont know what a usual compile time would be for one of the larger maps that have a lot of detail

 

[Apos]

But let's face it: you are hopefully going to have a much faster and more powerful computer for HL2 than you had for HL1 as well.

 

[Hoju]

Valve should pick up Zoner.

 

[koopa]

Don't forget the compile tools are distributed, so if you have two computers you can get nearly twice the speed.

 

[AgentXen]

Originally posted by koopa
Don't forget the compile tools are distributed, so if you have two computers you can get nearly twice the speed.

Wow. Really? Explain.

 

[koopa]

AFAIR (I'm trying to find a quote from Gabe on this, but haven't yet) they were originally going to thread-enable the map tools for machines with multiple CPU's. But they changed their mind and made them fully distributed ; it's a little bit like a SETI thing where you can distribute the work across multiple computers, providing they are networked.

Edit : Best quote I can find so far:
<valve|david> Compile tools: we've created distributed vis and distributed vrad to greatly cut compile times.