On 19 Mar 2008 08:34:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Leahy) wrote: >One question worth asking is *why* the programmers want to run their >compiles in the foreground? > >In my experience, foreground compiles are a desperate measure only >resorted to when batch turnaround is absolutely horrendous. Perhaps >that is the real problem that needs to be addressed.
Back when computers were slower, there always were "power users" who made sure all of their jobs had priority over everybody else's jobs. But I haven't seen that so much the last decade or so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
