title: Slow Complex Builds & Hudson vs. Electric Cloud
body: <p>Is hudson the right tool for complex C++ builds?</p>
  
  <p>I have a C++ build that takes about 4 hours.  Compile and packaging take about 1/2 the time and testing consumes the other half.  Presently, we are using a home grown system but there's some move to go to hudson since we use it for all of our java builds.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that continuous integration isn't very...continuous at 4 hour intervals.  I want a tool that's going to let me parallelize the build in an understandable way. </p>
  
  <p>Hudson's been great for small builds or java builds where I'm sitting at the top of a large maven project, but I don't think it will scale well for complex c++ builds.</p>
  
  <p>What have your experiences been?</p>