Marco van de Voort schrieb: > In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said: >>> For me, a much higher priority when doing rewrites might be >>> multithreading nf the compiler itself. >> That's questionable, depending on the real bottlenecks in compiler >> operation. I suspect that disk I/O is the narrowest bottleneck, that can >> not be widened by parallel processing. > > No that has to be solved by a bigger granularity (compiling more units in > one go). That avoids ppu reloading and limits directory searching (there is > a cache iirc) freeing up more bandwidth for source loading. > > Not only compiling goes in paralel, I assume one could also load a ppu in > parallel?
With compiling I meant all tasks the compiler does, even assemling and linking. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
