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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Accelerating compilation

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

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