Re: parallel compression in 'make dist'

2009-10-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:32:07AM CEST: > this looks very nice. Here my timing results for 'make -j dist' in the TeX > Live tree: Thanks for testing. > >... Notably, -j2 isn't helpful > >for GM, as it starts the slowest encoder late only. > > I could think of one mor

Re: parallel compression in 'make dist'

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:11:58AM CEST: Another completely unrelated item: it would be nice if Automake could run gzip and bzip2 (and others) in parallel when creating the distribution tarballs. In a parallel make that c

parallel compression in 'make dist' (was: [PATCH] Automake support for ObjC++)

2009-10-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:11:58AM CEST: > Another completely unrelated item: > > it would be nice if Automake could run gzip and bzip2 (and others) in > parallel when creating the distribution tarballs. In a parallel make that > could save quite some time when running