[llvm-commits] [PATCH] [Lit] Use multiprocessing instead of threading

[Sean Silva]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
> Sorry I missed this patch. I'm +10 for this change, as I believe
> threading is much less useful than multiprocessing in this case for
> true scaling. While we're at it, can we consider requiring Python 2.6?
> It was released more than 4 years ago! I realize some systems may come
> with an older Python out of the box, but can't we require users to
> install Python 2.6 in order to run LLVM tests? Are there any major
> platforms for which this is a problem?

To bolster this point, Python **2.5** stopped receiving bugfixes
(hence, security fixes) *years* ago
<http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.5.4/> (2008). Which of our
users are using 2.4?

-- Sean Silva