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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