From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building cvs emacs on a dual-core machine Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:04:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166699172 5494 80.91.229.10 (21 Dec 2006 11:06:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mindcooler@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 12:06:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxLkQ-0004AJ-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:06:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxLkQ-0000rc-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxLj2-0000Bu-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:04:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxLis-0008Vv-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxLis-0008Vc-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GxLim-0000S2-OA; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id E7BC38A005C; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:04:13 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed\, 20 Dec 2006 21\:05\:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64049 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) >> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:40:22 +0100 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Only a fractional part of the build is about compiling C files. > > Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see the relevance of this, > even if it were true that C compilation is only a small fraction of > the build. There's nothing to prevent a parallel build from compiling > 2 Lisp files at the same time, is there? No. Forget what I said. > >> Most of the time is spent inside emacs byte-compiling Lisp files, > > Btw, byte compilation is only relevant to bootstrapping. A normal > build of an Emacs tarball spends mots of its time in C compilation, I > think. Don't you agree? That is true, yes. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk