On 26/01/2012 23:37, Evan Laforge wrote:
I'm slightly surprised by this - in my experience parallel builds beat
--make as long as the parallelism is a factor of 2 or more. Is your
dependency graph very narrow, or do you have lots of very small modules?
I get full parallelism, 4 threads at once on a 2 core machine * 2
hyperthread/whatever core i5, and SSD. Maybe I should try with just 2
threads. I only ever get 200% CPU at most, so it seems like the
hyperthreads are not really much like a whole core.
The modules are usually around 150-250 lines. Here are the timings
for an older run:
from scratch (191 modules):
runghc Shake/Shakefile.hs build/debug/seq 128.43s user 20.04s system 178%
cpu 1:23.01 total
no link: runghc Shake/Shakefile.hs build/debug/seq 118.92s user 19.21s sys
tem 249% cpu 55.383 total
make -j3 build/seq 68.81s user 9.98s system 98% cpu 1:19.60 total
This looks a bit suspicious. The Shake build is doing nearly twice as
much work as the --make build, in terms of CPU time, but because it is
getting nearly 2x parallelism it comes in a close second. How many
processes is the Shake build using?
I'd investigate this further. Are you sure there's no swapping going
on? How many processes is the Shake build creating - perhaps too many?
Cheers,
Simon
_______________________________________________
Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
