Oh! That works quite nicely.

It's not supported for install-deps. I assumed that it just wasn't implemented.

I should open a ticket.

Thanks!
  - Clark

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, Clark Gaebel wrote:
It's also useful to note that the disk cache might do a surprisingly good job at caching those .hi files for you. That, and a lot of people (like me!) use SSDs, where the parallel compilation takes the vast majority of time.

I'd be really excited to see parallel ghc --make.

By the way, totally unrelated, but why does cabal support -j when cabal-dev doesn't?

  - Clark

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
Hello Thomas,

thanks for your detailed answer.

> Could be worthwhile re-evaluating the patch.

Does your patch still apply somewhat cleanly?
And does it address all the caches in your list already or only some
subset of them?

> To have a multi-process ghc --make you don't need thread-safety.
> However, without sharing the caches -- in particular the interface
> file caches -- the time to read data from the disk may outweigh any
> advantages from parallel execution.

That might be a big step already - I've never seen a project where I'd
care about parallel compilation that is not totally CPU-bound.

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