On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:40:43 PM UTC+1, fhivert wrote: > > Dear All, > > > * A parallel build (using the usual MAKE="make -jN") can speed up the > > docbuilding time. Note that the speed-up factor is closer to N/2 than to > > N because two passes are needed now. > > This is not quite true. I don't have precise timing. Put most of the time > of > the first pass is spend parsing the files, generating the indexes and > pickling > the parse-tree. on the second pass the doc in not reread, instead the > parse > tree are unpickled and the html are generated. Usually on my laptop the > first > pass if 4-5 time faster than the second one. So I would more expect > something > closer to 6/5N... > > Florent > One little rant: if I wanna run "make ptest" and did not set MAKE="make -j??" and the doc needs to be rebuilt, then it's built serially.
It also seems everything is rebuilt unconditionally, even if nothing was modified, isn't it? That is much more worrying... Couldn't this be avoided ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
