On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+libreoff...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Norbert, *, > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [...] >> 'binfitler' will quickly get in the way... we will need to either >> gbuildify it, or accept the penalty of having it build last (after >> everything else) > > Hmm - wouldn't it be possible to just "gbuildify" it by having the > gbuild run build.pl?
yes but The problem is dependencies. from build.pl point of vew tail_build is one big module. for instance binfitler depend on svx. if we make progress to the point where we can put svx in tail_build, then you have to declare tail_build as a pre-req dep of binfilter, which essentially will push its build to the end of the schedule... > > binfilter can nicely be built in parallel to other stuff, can't it? > Being forced to build it last will be quite a penalty. No it wont really be a penalty (we need to measure of course). The reason not is: nothing depend on binfilter and binfilter can keep busy even a big machine all by itself. in the mean time tail_build will make better use of the resource (as in less low-time where stuff are not running because of dependencies choke point) so the total elapsed time should not be significantly impacted... > >> the former is quite a lot of work, the later is easy: just add >> tail_build as its dependency. Actually since binfilter is pretty big >> and has a lot of sub-modules > > But what about the other gbuild stuff? While binfilter itself might be > able to get 4 CPUs busy, the other modules probably then have to sit > and wait for others. I'm not following? what other module ? the other modules are built. and faster because they did not have to share the ressource with binfilter while they were building... > > But of course I have no numbers, so it's just gut feeling. Same here... :-) but my 'daily build' log should give me some number soon... in any case even if it is a bit slower, since gbuildifying binfilter is such a big work for very little reward (binfilter is on it's way out) the only alternative is to push it at then end. > > ciao > Christian > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
