> I did try --jobs on a couple of occasions,
Thanks for your feedback.
> and the results always varied between broken, not working,
The parallelisation support by the Coccinelle software was questionable
for a while.
> or downright making things even slower.
I wonder about this information.
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> spatch version 1.0.4 with Python support and with PCRE support
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> Fatal error: exception Sys_error("array: No such file or directory")
Another bit of background information:
* https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/99082e9d-8047-eee3-68dd-9849868d4a96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2016-August/003546.html
* https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/alpine.DEB.2.10.1506171707190.2578@hadrien/
https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2015-June/002141.html
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> Therefore, merely passing in '--jobs <N>' doesn't bring any runtime benefits:
This program parameter should be used for other command variants.
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> It appears that batching 'spatch' invocations with 1.0.8 does not
> bring the same benefits as with 1.0.4, but brings slowdowns instead...
Would you like to share your experiences also on the Coccinelle mailing list?
Regards,
Markus
