On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 06:46:24PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Nov-05 22:30:21 +0000, Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >wouldn't it be possible to somehow spawn N gcc or clang instances > >(make -jN buildkernel) and then pipe the src to one of those N instances? > >just like with something like multics N processes were started and then > >people > >used the job control language to load binaries into those processes. > > This is likely to require very non-trivial changes to gcc or clang. > The major issue is that the process needs to be in a known initial > state before beginning a compile - and it's very unlikely that the > compiler cleans itself up enough to return to that state.
Actually, the real problem is that a full cleanup is likely to be as expensive as fork+exec. Joerg _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
