I wonder if anybody on this list has come up with any good tricks for exploiting parallelism using ksh. Example: all the unit and system tests I run on the code my students submit for homework are written using ksh. Given that I have a four-processor machine, wouldn't it be nice to get through those tests four times faster? But I'm not sure I want to blithely launch as many processes as I have tests.
Some form of work-crew parallelism would be ideal here. The shortest path I have thought of would be to have ksh generate a makefile that says what I want to have done, then use make to limit the amount of parallelism going on at once. (For example, I might want to tie up just 3 of my 4 cores running tests.) This procedure strikes me as a bit tedious. Does anybody have other ideas? Norman _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
