Re: multi-core / multi-machine compiling?

"Wesley W. Terpstra" <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:07:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ml.mlton.devel
Message-ID <CAA-O0Xi1nhwTy2aK55bWB2JEx5_4F9evRzFvdHm8u0hHuPhc8w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Matthew Fluet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Of course, I think the biggest speedup for day-to-day compilation with MLton
> would come from caching the type-checking and elaboration of the basis
> library.

I think an even bigger speed-up for non-x86 would be to run multiple
instances of gcc. When compiling on arm or other architectures, the
gcc phase is by far the longest and also the easiest to parallelize.

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