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From: | Warren Young |
Subject: | Re: SMP configuration |
Date: | Mon, 17 May 2010 14:58:52 -0600 |
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On 5/17/2010 10:40 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/17/2010 08:09 AM, Michael Menegakis wrote:On windows, probably because I had heard windows are very slow in creating new processes unlike UNIX, configuration is mindbogglingly slow. I wonder if there's a way to run it SMP ..-ish..How is SMP going to change the number of processes to be run?
Most of the tests in a configure script don't actually have to run in series.
Writing the code to analyze all the tests and build a dependency graph would be pretty tricky, though. Getting portable shells to launch N tests in parallel (where N is probably cores * 1.5 or so) at a time and integrate the results would be even trickier. You could do it easier in, say, Erlang, but then you've thrown portability out the window.
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