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From: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>,
	"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Accelerating compilation
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 12:04:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_800ro7kpH5EZ0SaER9iTXVaVe+wfdN4OLLZet01_7pa5fYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBH17V-j5egiUCC9eWT8vh69M37ZuHOxkMdZZSoP5AVtTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Gabriel Scherer
<gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
> While there is support for parallel compilation in ocamlbuild (...
> except on Windows, I'm afraid), I've often found out that it doesn't
> parallelize much in practice because of current implementation
> limitations -- but if you have success stories about this I'd be glad
> to hear about them. Improving on this is on the medium-term
> ocamlbuild-development TODO list.

I definitely do see significant speedups on some projects, e.g.
building Lacaml.  But I don't see that on other projects even though
the dependency graph would allow for it.  I guess it's still work in
progress...

Regards,
Markus

-- 
Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info        markus.mottl@gmail.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-06 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-06 13:56 Romain Bardou
2013-09-06 14:55 ` Markus Mottl
2013-09-06 15:19   ` Romain Bardou
2013-09-06 15:27     ` Gabriel Scherer
2013-09-06 15:33       ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-06 20:51     ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2013-09-09  7:44       ` Romain Bardou
2013-09-11 13:00       ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-11 13:46         ` Wojciech Meyer
2013-09-12  1:23           ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-12 15:15             ` Jacques Le Normand
2013-09-30  8:06       ` [Caml-list] from oasis to obuild (original subject was Re: Accelerating compilation) Francois Berenger
2013-09-30  8:18         ` Török Edwin
2013-09-30  9:00         ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2013-09-30  9:13           ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-09-30 11:13             ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-30 11:19               ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-09-30 11:27                 ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-30 11:36                   ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-09-30  9:18           ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-30 14:11         ` Sylvain Le Gall
2013-10-01  0:57           ` Francois Berenger
2013-10-01 12:25             ` Sylvain Le Gall
2013-09-07 11:37     ` [Caml-list] Accelerating compilation Matej Kosik
2013-09-08  6:37     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-06 15:18 ` Gabriel Scherer
2013-09-06 15:28   ` Romain Bardou
2013-09-06 16:04   ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2013-09-06 16:30 ` Xavier Leroy
2013-09-07 19:13   ` Wojciech Meyer
2013-09-07 21:42     ` Jacques-Pascal Deplaix
2013-09-08  1:59       ` Markus Mottl
2013-09-09  7:59   ` Romain Bardou
2013-09-09  8:25   ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-09  8:35     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-09 10:13     ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-09-09 17:08     ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-09 17:17       ` Gabriel Kerneis
2013-09-10  2:01     ` oleg
2013-09-10 10:21       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-10 16:15       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-10 16:46       ` Xavier Leroy
2013-09-10 16:53         ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-10 17:43           ` ygrek
2013-09-06 18:45 ` Martin Jambon
2013-09-09  8:15   ` Romain Bardou
2013-09-09  8:36     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-09  8:41       ` Thomas Refis
2013-09-09 17:32     ` Aleksey Nogin

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