Al Hopper wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Peter Memishian wrote:

 > I would like to propose a project aimed to improve ON build times. This
 > can live either under tools or under performance or under some other
 > community.
 >
 > There was some discussion about it a while ago in the context of Google
 > summer of code:
 > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=33951

While I certainly support the initiative, I'd like to hear a bit more
about what's planned.  For instance, the earlier thread talked mainly
about parallelizing the build, but in my experience, a lot of the time is
wasted because of bad algorithms inside the tools themselves rather than
lack of parallelism.  For instance, 6357412 showed how an undersized hash
                                      ^^^^^^^
Sun internal only access?

It's a lint bug - lint is part of the Sun Studio compiler suite, which is
not open.

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        -Alan Coopersmith-           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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