Chet Ramey wrote in <211b74c0-caed-227f-ffae-b85868ef799f@xxxxxxxx>: |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. I wondered how they handle (file-descriptor) resource exhaustion. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
