[racket-dev] Parallel Build of Collects

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 2 20:41:45 EDT 2010

I suggested that Kevin let others try parallel mode for a day or two
before making it the default.

At Fri, 2 Jul 2010 19:38:55 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> That sounds right to me too.
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Why don't you use make parallel setup the standard?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jul 2, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Kevin Tew wrote:
> >
> >> raco setup -u will build collects in parallel, using all the cores your 
> machine has.
> >> rack setup -u -j X ie (-j 2) can be used to throttle parallel build to only 
> use X cores.
> >>
> >> Parallel build is currently done by spawning worker processes and 
> communicating over pipes.
> >> Building scribble documentation is still serial, I'm working to parallelize 
> that as well.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
> >>
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