Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 6/18/22 3:05 PM, Tim Rühsen wrote: [Configure for wget2 runs 'rm' and 'cat' each roughly 2000x - so I came up with enabling plugins for those two commands (had to write a plugin for 'rm', not sure if it never has been accepted by bash upstream).] The loadable `rm' has been in bash since ba

Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 13, 2022, Paul Eggert wrote: > In many Gnu projects, the 'configure' script is the biggest barrier to > building because it takes s long to run. Is there some way that we > could improve its performance without completely reengineering it, by > improving Bash so that it can parallelize