Re: Prioritizing non-dependent targets in parallel make

2010-01-04 Thread Eric Melski
Tim Murphy wrote: Hi, I'm nobody official. I have seen Electric Accelerator using history files which may be doing something a bit like this. ... So I, personally, want something that learns. I would like to be able to store the learned information into source control and use it as the basis

Re: Prioritizing non-dependent targets in parallel make

2010-01-04 Thread Eric Melski
Tim Murphy wrote: Hi, I'm nobody official. I have seen Electric Accelerator using history files which may be doing something a bit like this. Personally I don't like the idea of priorities very much. Large builds that I have done do have big targets but since we are building 5000 of the same

[bug #28475] A plugin based architecture for functions

2010-01-04 Thread Timothy N Murphy
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #28475 (project make): I would like to second this - would love to be able to add string lowercase (with good performance) and md5sum and $(equals a,b) and some kind of integer arithmetic functions. This is without the penalty of having to provide a custom version of GN