Bug#902624: Please support running in parallel

2018-06-28 Thread Josh Triplett 
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 07:55:39PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> forcemerge 842837 902624
> thanks
> 
> Hi Josh,
> 
> > I'm running diffoscope on a system with plenty of memory and CPUs;
> > diffoscope benefits from the memory, but not the CPUs. Could diffoscope
> > do comparisons in parallel?
> 
> Indeed; whilst there is already:
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/842837
> 
> … there has actually been quite a bit of work done on this in various
> branches. Alas, none merged into master yet. :)

Ah, I didn't find that bug when I searched open bugs; sorry for the
duplicate.

Bug#902624: Please support running in parallel

2018-06-28 Thread Chris Lamb 
Dear Josh,

> Ah, I didn't find that bug when I searched open bugs; sorry for the
> duplicate.

Not at all; I consider it a friendly "+1" for this feature! :-)


Regards,

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Bug#902624: Please support running in parallel

2018-06-28 Thread Chris Lamb 
forcemerge 842837 902624
thanks

Hi Josh,

> I'm running diffoscope on a system with plenty of memory and CPUs;
> diffoscope benefits from the memory, but not the CPUs. Could diffoscope
> do comparisons in parallel?

Indeed; whilst there is already:

  https://bugs.debian.org/842837

… there has actually been quite a bit of work done on this in various
branches. Alas, none merged into master yet. :)


Regards,

-- 
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Bug#902624: Please support running in parallel

2018-06-28 Thread Josh Triplett 
Package: diffoscope
Version: 96
Severity: wishlist

I'm running diffoscope on a system with plenty of memory and CPUs;
diffoscope benefits from the memory, but not the CPUs. Could diffoscope
do comparisons in parallel?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/72 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages diffoscope depends on:
ii  libpython3.6-stdlib3.6.6~rc1-4
ii  python33.6.5-3
ii  python3-distro 1.0.1-2
ii  python3-distutils  3.6.6-1
ii  python3-libarchive-c   2.1-3.1
ii  python3-magic  2:0.4.15-1
ii  python3-pkg-resources  39.2.0-1

Versions of packages diffoscope recommends:
pn  abootimg   
ii  acl2.2.52-3+b1
pn  apktool
pn  binutils-multiarch 
ii  bzip2  1.0.6-8.1
pn  caca-utils 
pn  colord 
pn  db-util
pn  default-jdk-headless | default-jdk | java-sdk  
ii  device-tree-compiler   1.4.6-1
pn  docx2txt   
ii  e2fsprogs  1.44.2-1
pn  enjarify   
pn  fontforge-extras   
pn  fp-utils   
pn  genisoimage
ii  gettext0.19.8.1-6+b1
ii  ghc8.2.2-4
pn  ghostscript
pn  giflib-tools   
pn  gnumeric   
pn  imagemagick
pn  jsbeautifier   
pn  libarchive-tools   
pn  llvm   
pn  mono-utils 
pn  odt2txt
pn  oggvideotools  
ii  openssh-client 1:7.7p1-2
pn  pgpdump
ii  poppler-utils  0.63.0-2
pn  procyon-decompiler 
pn  python3-argcomplete
pn  python3-binwalk
ii  python3-debian 0.1.32
pn  python3-defusedxml 
pn  python3-guestfs
pn  python3-jsondiff   
pn  python3-progressbar
pn  python3-pyxattr
pn  python3-tlsh   
pn  r-base-core
pn  sng
pn  sqlite3
pn  squashfs-tools 
ii  tcpdump4.9.2-3
ii  unzip  6.0-21
ii  vim-common 2:8.1.0089-1
pn  xmlutils   
ii  xxd2:8.1.0089-1
ii  xz-utils   5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages diffoscope suggests:
ii  libjs-jquery  3.2.1-1

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