On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 04:30:30AM -0500, Gravis wrote:
> to my knowledge, cross compilation has minimal overhead. while having
> native targets is good for testing, it won't have a significant impact
> on compile time.

It doesn't work on a majority of packages, as I understand (build scripts
that rely on running compiled code, that don't respect CC, and many other
causes.)
You can use qemu, but that's generally ~80% CPU overhead.

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham