faster java compilation (was Re: linking performance (was: Re: OK to get rid of scaddins?))

2012-02-14 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-02-14 14:22, Michael Meeks wrote: Perhaps; could it also be that we like to compile with gcc in some eight way parallel way, but when it comes to linking, we -really- don't want to bog our machine down in that way ? I wonder if we could explicitly limit parallelism of linking in some

Re: faster java compilation (was Re: linking performance

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Stahl
On 14/02/12 13:30, Noel Grandin wrote: On 2012-02-14 14:22, Michael Meeks wrote: Perhaps; could it also be that we like to compile with gcc in some eight way parallel way, but when it comes to linking, we -really- don't want to bog our machine down in that way ? I wonder if we could

Re: faster java compilation (was Re: linking performance

2012-02-14 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-02-14 15:49, Michael Stahl wrote: do we _really_ invoke javac once for each source file anywhere? at least in gbuild it's invoked once per jar file (technically, per JavaClassSet that the jar depends upon), which is the only sane way to do it. You are correct sir. But I think I saw