Re: Compiling Rakudo in parallel

2017-05-26 Thread Steve Mynott
On 26 May 2017 at 07:04, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Would someone update the README that comes with Rakudo Star with this > information, please? I don't see any point since I think he is basically saying it's not worth trying to compile in parallel -- the bits which compile slowly

Re: Compiling Rakudo in parallel

2017-05-26 Thread Gabor Szabo
That just confuses me :( Do I need to type make -j 4 and hope for some concurrency? or export MAKEFLAGS="-j2 --load-average=2" make as I was pointed to off-list? Would someone update the README that comes with Rakudo Star with this information, please? regards Gabor On Fri, May 26,

Re: Compiling Rakudo in parallel

2017-05-25 Thread Timo Paulssen
Sadly, the majority of rakudo's and nqp's compilation is serialized (due to the dependencies between the individual pieces). If you build more than one backend at the same time, i.e. moar + jvm, you can build both in parallel. On the other hand, the biggest chunk of time is spent compiling the

Compiling Rakudo in parallel

2017-05-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, is it possible to run any of the compilation and installation phases of Rakudo in parallel? (eg. so the "make" will use all the cores in my Linux machine) Gabor