On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Jun 2011, at 15:31, Paul Davis wrote: > >> Perhaps we should just write a small tool that does the >> compilation in parallel instead of trying to wedge a square hole into >> a hypercube. > > GNU Make has parallel builds baked in. > > http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/parallel_make.html > >
The issue is that erlc starts the Erlang VM. Starting the Erlang VM is slow. There is a significant advantage to using a single VM to compile many files.
