On 05/17/2010 02:58 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 5/17/2010 10:40 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 05/17/2010 08:09 AM, Michael Menegakis wrote: >>> On windows, probably because I had heard windows are very slow in >>> creating new processes unlike UNIX, configuration is mindbogglingly >>> slow. >>> >>> I wonder if there's a way to run it SMP ..-ish.. >> >> How is SMP going to change the number of processes to be run? > > Most of the tests in a configure script don't actually have to run in > series. > > Writing the code to analyze all the tests and build a dependency graph > would be pretty tricky, though. Getting portable shells to launch N > tests in parallel (where N is probably cores * 1.5 or so) at a time and > integrate the results would be even trickier. You could do it easier > in, say, Erlang, but then you've thrown portability out the window. The quagmire project uses make to perform its parallel checks, but it requires that end users have GNU make installed. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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