svn commit: r263778 - in head: bin lib lib/clang sbin share/mk usr.bin usr.sbin

[Bryan Drewery]

On 2014-03-27 10:39, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2014, at 22:30, Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>>  Add a SUBDIR_PARALLEL option to bsd.subdir.mk, to allow make to 
>> process
>>  all the SUBDIR entries in parallel, instead of serially.  Apply this
>>  option to a selected number of Makefiles, which can greatly speed up 
>> the
>>  build on multi-core machines, when using make -j.
> 
> THANK YOU!  That's really excellent.  We can probably parallelise
> pretty much all of usr.lib and usr.bin as well, but going from using 8
> cores to 17 is a very nice improvement.  This should help tinderbox /
> Jenkins build a LOT!
> 
> David

I'll do some wider tests on the portmgr boxes. We have some 32 cpu 
systems.

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery