host red green blue</B><BR>
</UL>
<P>
distcc prefers hosts towards the start of the list, so machines
should be listed in descending order of speed.  In particular,
when only a single compilation can be run (such as from a configure
script), the first machine listed is used (but see <I> --randomize</I>
below).<BR>
<P>
Placing <I> localhost</I> at the right point in the list is important
to getting good performance.  Because overhead for running jobs
locally is low, localhost should normally be first.  Howev