From TGL@oticon.dk Thu Nov 8 10:54:02 2001 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:16:05 +0200 From: Thomas Gleerup To: 'Steven Knight' , "Nolish, Kevin" Cc: "'cons-discuss@gnu.org'" Subject: RE: Parallel Cons Steven, Kevin, I looked at the parallel cons efforts some time ago, but quickly found that pcons (based on 1.5/1.6 from 1999) was indeed very old and incompatible with version 2.3.0. I then decided to incorporate the pcons features into version 2.3.0. I have improved the code a little in that && is automatically inserted for multi-line commands. The status is that the code passes all tests for "-j 1", thus making it "backward" compatible. However, it fails 6 tests using '-j 8'. Not all errors can be attributed to the known deficiencies of the original pcons. I have used it successfully for a while, and it really speeds things up on a 4-CPU machine! I have attached the code and a list of tests that fail together with a few comments. Feel free to use it any way you like. Thomas ``` @ @ ---------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------- Thomas Gleerup, M.Sc. Embedded Systems, Team Technology Oticon a/s Strandvejen 58 DK-2900 Hellerup Denmark Phone, direct : +45 39 13 83 94 Phone, switchboard : +45 39 17 71 00 Fax : +45 39 27 79 00 Email : tgl@oticon.dk Web : http://www.oticon.dk ---------------------oooO-----Oooo---------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Knight [mailto:knight@baldmt.com] > Sent: 31. august 2001 23:04 > To: Nolish, Kevin > Cc: 'cons-discuss@gnu.org' > Subject: Re: Parallel Cons > > > > I realize that I'm stirring up an old thread. > > > > I looked at the cons FAQ and found references to several > efforts at a > > parallel cons. Most of these references seemed to date from 1999. > > > > Is anything more recent going on in this area? > > Nothing I'm aware of. If you wanted to pick up any of the > past efforts > pointed to by the FAQ, or start one of your own, and finish it to the > point where Cons finally has -j support, you would become an instant > hero to a lot of grateful people... :-) > > --SK > > > _______________________________________________ > Cons-discuss@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/cons-discuss > Cons URL: http://www.dsmit.com/cons/ > [ Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "pcons-2.3.0.tgz") 99KB. ] [ Unable to print this part. ]