From: Mario Lang <mlang@blind.guru>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compilation speed
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:25:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d03n7zse.fsf@tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52a7dda9-7fc5-bc33-d2ea-ad325e2cde96@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:07:14 -0700")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 8/6/20 8:20 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> And then ./configure takes 19 seconds, and that's fully single-threaded,
>> I believe? And... I'm guessing there's no way to get that to be
>> multi-threaded?
>
> You'd either have to rework Autoconf to make it multiprocess
> (difficult) or split configure.ac into pieces and run several
> './configure' pieces in parallel (this might be doable but would still
> be tricky).
The "speed" of autoconf is probably the reason why its adoption rate is
falling. I remember insisting on using autoconf for many years, just
because. Until I figured out CMake 3.x. I will never write an autoconf
script again, never.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-19 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 15:20 Compilation speed Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-06 19:07 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-19 9:25 ` Mario Lang [this message]
2020-08-19 9:43 ` tomas
2020-08-19 12:37 ` Ergus
2020-08-06 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-07 6:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 16:26 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-10 14:33 ` Arthur Miller
2020-08-12 2:11 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-12 12:53 ` Arthur Miller
2020-08-12 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-12 16:59 ` Paul Eggert
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