path: root/doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml

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<title>Distributed Builds</title>

<partintro>
<para>Nix supports distributed builds, where a local Nix installation can
forward Nix builds to other machines over the network.  This allows
multiple builds to be performed in parallel (thus improving
performance) and allows Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
semi-transparent way.  For instance, if you perform a build for a
<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> on an <literal>i686-linux</literal>
machine, Nix can automatically forward the build to a
<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> machine, if available.</para>
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