* NightStrike wrote on Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 06:14:22PM CEST: > On 6/22/08, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think it would only be a few days of work for somebody familiar with > > Tcl to add -j support to DejaGNU. I think that would be a very useful > > contribution to gcc development.
> Now what you could do (though I don't know how "hackey" it is) would > be to run each .exp file separately and run a script to combine the > results after the fact and create a new table of results data and new > sum/log files. Has anybody ever looked at using threading capabilities of tcl directly? Parallel DejaGNU could benefit other packages too. There is a thread pools package (tpool.html, linked from <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2770>) but I have no idea how functional it is in practice; likely the GCC testsuite would need at least a bit of restructuring, too. Cheers, Ralf (who'd love to look into it but I doesn't have time ATM)
