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Re: Faster builds

 

On 11/18/2010 11:42 AM, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Benji and I got a little worked up yesterday over the time it takes to do a
> "make" or "make schema."  We're probably not alone.
> 
> I have two pieces of good news for you, then some pie in the sky, and a question
> (with more floating pie attached).
> 
> 
> Good news #1: an optimized version of security.py just hit devel, so "make
> schema" will be much faster.
> 
> 
> Good news #2: the default "make" target now supports parallel builds!
> 
> So instead of "make" or "make build" try "make -j2" or "make build -j2"
> respectively.  On my system that speeds it up from 2:40 to 1:30, give or take. 
> (Parallel builds may still break on some other targets though.)
> 

Jeroen, Benji, thank you very much for doing this.  It is a great improvement.

Maris

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