[fpc-devel] parallel compilation support

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 Sep 2008, at 09:52, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>>> In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
>>
>>>
>>> Via makefiles yes, and only on directory level.
>>
>> It also works at the unit level, e.g. the Darwin rtl. It goes from  
>> 8.6
>> to 5.3 seconds when adding -j 2 on my MacBook.
>
> Yes of course, since the RTL is special in that it has non build unit
> default.

Build units are the exception rather than the rule under packages as  
well. Most directories under packages are not parallellised themselves  
because no one went through the trouble of adding dependencies for  
individual units.


Jonas