[PATCH] [Review Request] Function-based parallel LLVM backend code generation
Renato Golin
renato.golin at linaro.org
Tue Oct 8 08:27:28 PDT 2013
On 8 October 2013 09:34, Wan, Xiaofei <xiaofei.wan at intel.com> wrote:
> In this patch, function-based parallelism is adopted to accelerate backend
> code generation. Please review/discuss it.
>
As much as I think this would work, it wouldn't play nice with distributed
builds (make -jN). Even if you could teach build systems how many threads a
process could use, it would never use 100% of them all, all the time, being
a waste of resources on huge source trees.
cheers,
--renato
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