Re: [Boost-build] BJam parallel support

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-15 09:25:08

On Monday 15 May 2006 08:40, Alex Besogonov wrote:
> I'm thinking to add parallel execution support to BJam other than
> parallel actions execution.
...
> All 'forking' will be done logically inside the interpreter, so no 
> support from operating system will be necessary (threads/vfork will be 
> used in case they are available).
...
> I think it can be useful to do building while constructing dependency
> graph at the same time.
>
> Any thoughts?

Right now, I don't see any specific use case that can be benefited from this. 
Also, how are you going to implement forking inside intepreter? By 
maintaining several contexts and implementing your own scheduler? This can 
quickly become complicated.

- Volodya

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