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I'm the architect of ElectricAccelerator (http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electricaccelerator.p...), a high-performance replacement for GNU make. I use it every day for all my builds, including builds of ElectricAccelerator itself.

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Is ElectricAccelerator written in C/C++? How many kLOC and how long does it take to run the build?

(disclaimer: my company https://circleci.com is a competitor to the direction you guys are taking with Continuous Delivery)

ElectricAccelerator is predominantly written in C/C++, with some Java for the cluster manager server component. As of the 7.1.0 release, it's about 375KLOC in C/C++ (excludes comments and blank lines) and 100KLOC in Java (excludes comments and blank lines). Compiling and linking from scratch takes about 29 minutes serially, but only about 2 minutes when I use ElectricAccelerator to build it (with a cluster of 16 worker agents).

We use ElectricCommander to orchestrate our CI process:

* checkout from Perforce

* build (which uses ElectricAccelerator)

* run unit tests

* build installer

* install on test cluster

* run integration tests

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