1 Sep
2011
1 Sep
'11
8:49 a.m.
On 01/09/2011 08:44, Evan Laforge wrote:
Yes, the plan was to eventually have a parallel --make mode.
If that's the goal, wouldn't it be easier to start many ghcs?
It's an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. There would have to be an atomic file system operation to "commit" a compiled module - getting that right could be a bit tricky (compilation isn't deterministic, so the commit has to be atomic). Then you would probably want to randomise the build order of each --make run to maximise the chance that each GHC does something different. Fun project for someone? Cheers, Simon