[mesa-users] parallel make

[Michael Zingale]

I usually do a 'make -j 4' or higher to do 4 tasks at once.  Are you not
doing that?

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Hi Rich and other tech-savy mesa-users,
>
> I'm wondering if there are some cool new tools out there that I should be
> using for doing parallel compiles during a make.
>
> When I'm chasing bugs in mesa/star (a large fraction of my life it
> seems!), I do a lot of complete recompiles of star.
> The rest of the system is fine; I'm just remaking star.  Is there a way to
> take advantage of the multiple cores?
> Currently, I'm just using plain-old make that does one file at a time, and
> the compiler just uses 1 thread.
> Surely some bright person has provided a way to do multiple compiles in
> parallel (still 1 thread per compile).
> The trick of course is to get the dependencies done right --- but that
> information can be made available.
>
> Anyone have experience doing something like that?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
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