Re: distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Joel Reymont
Anyone with a multi-core processor would be. Most of the people, I assume. How would you implement this, though? On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: it's true that production GHC version doesn't support multi-threaded compilation, so such system will be of benefit even for

Re[2]: distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Joel, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 1:33:27 PM, you wrote: my sentence should be read as is it true...? - i had lost a track whether it was incorporated in GHC or not. the idea is that GHC should be extended to be able to write out dependencies list built in the --make mode. Then rather simple

distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello GHC, i'm interested to know how much people are interested in having support for distributed compilation by GHC? it's true that production GHC version doesn't support multi-threaded compilation, so such system will be of benefit even for local usage for users with multi-core chips

Re: distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Joel, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 1:33:27 PM, you wrote: my sentence should be read as is it true...? - i had lost a track whether it was incorporated in GHC or not. the idea is that GHC should be extended to be able to write out dependencies list built in the --make

Re[2]: distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4:12:15 PM, you wrote: whether it was incorporated in GHC or not. the idea is that GHC should be extended to be able to write out dependencies list built in the --make mode. Then rather simple scripts may be used to distribute the work among many

Re: distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Simon, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4:12:15 PM, you wrote: whether it was incorporated in GHC or not. the idea is that GHC should be extended to be able to write out dependencies list built in the --make mode. Then rather simple scripts may be used to distribute the

Re: distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Simon Marlow wrote: This is one reason I wrote the 'setup makefile' patch for Cabal[1] recently. I haven't seen that patch show up in the cabal tree yet. Do you plan to commit it? I'd love to see it in. b ___ Glasgow-haskell-users

Re: distributed compilation by GHC

2007-04-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:47:39AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: This is one reason I wrote the 'setup makefile' patch for Cabal[1] recently. I haven't seen that patch show up in the cabal tree yet. Do you plan to commit it? I'd love to see it in. Coincidentally,