Follow-up Comment #5, bug #22923 (project make):
Another idea mentioned in a Python bug discussion on file handles contention
is to have each spawned make process redirect stdout and stderr of its spawned
actions to a socket opened by the main make process. (Perhaps, each make
process could do
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #22923 (project make):
I don't really see the difference between comment #5 and the original
description. I've addressed why this is hard to do in comment #2.
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Follow-up Comment #7, bug #22923 (project make):
Reaching back 25 years again, this is basically what Alliant Concentrix
parallel make did. It prefixed each output line with the job number |1|, |2|
and so on. (This is also why in my original proposal for make -j, I used
different numbered job
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #28134 (project make):
As a complete digression, and based on 26 years of doing parallel builds
(damn it's been a long time), I just wanted to point out that you can
generally use 50% more jobs than your number of CPUs/cores. E.g., for a
dual-core machine, use make -j3.
