On 6/13/22 6:39 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > In many Gnu projects, the 'configure' script is the biggest barrier to > building because it takes soooo long to run. Is there some way that we > could improve its performance without completely reengineering it, by > improving Bash so that it can parallelize 'configure' scripts? Previous iterations of this research rewrote existing shell scripts based on a database of annotations about individual commands, without any changes to the shell itself. Unless that's changed, you can experiment with Pash and Pash-JIT immediately. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@xxxxxxxx http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
