[fpc-devel] parallel compilation support

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 10:22:33 CEST 2008


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>
> What do you mean with parallel compilation? Starting up multiple compilers
> like make -j? Or generating paralel code?
>
> The tree supports make -j x due to Jonas' efforts.

I meant multiple compilers running in parallel compiling various units
to ultimately build a single application executable or FPC itself. You
answered my question for the latter.

>From your response, I assume it's not an automated process (FPC can
figure it out by itself)?  Does it need some manual tweaking from the
developer (via Makefiles maybe)?


Regards,
 - Graeme -


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