On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote:
Zev Weiss <z...@bewilderbeest.net> wrote:
At a high level: I've added a new flag, -M/--parallel[=N], that
enables multithreaded operation.
Thanks, this looks really interesting.
I'd like to suggest changing the code to use -j/--jobs as the name for
the relevant option; that would match both GNU Make and GNU parallel.
(GNU parallel also allows -P/--max-procs as an alias, but -P already
has a meaning in GNU grep.)
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Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
Hmm -- I picked --parallel largely for consistency with the
corresponding flag for coreutils' sort, which strikes me as a closer
relative to grep than either make or parallel. Also, the word "jobs"
has (at least to me) a definite suggestion of multiple processes rather
than threads. sort doesn't have a matching short option though, so I
went with -M to suggest "mulithreaded" (since, as you point out, -P is
already in use). Though I notice now that lower-case -p is still
available; perhaps that might be better than -M.
Zev
