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xcvista opened this issue Jul 9, 2016 · 2 comments
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Parallelize builds #168

xcvista opened this issue Jul 9, 2016 · 2 comments
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conclusion: duplicate Has already been submitted topic: code Related to content of the project itself type: enhancement Proposed improvement

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xcvista commented Jul 9, 2016 •
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I seriously doubt if anyone here are still stuck with a single-core processor. My three computers have 2, 4 and 16 hyper-threading cores respectively. Since almost everyone have a multi-core (or at least hyper-threading) processor why not take advantage of it, by parallelizing the build process?

Multiple instances of GCC can be launched at the same time. So you can perform core count detection upon launch (people can upgrade their processors after installing the software) and when compiling, use as many cores as possible. Building multi-compile-unit code is an embarrassingly parallel problem.

As of presentation, the -k flag from GNU Make is my personal favorite.
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per1234 commented Jul 10, 2016

See #17. It looks like some work has been done towards this in the parallel branch.

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cmaglie commented Aug 26, 2016

Duplicate of #17

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