Eric Melski wrote:
ElectricAccelerator doesn't factor runtimes into scheduling decisions,
although we have talked about doing so in the past. I spent some time
investigating the possibility, most recently a couple years ago. ...
I ran the simulation on a variety of real-world builds.
...
I'll see if I can dig up the patch for ElectricInsight and maybe write
it up in a blog. up that code, and maybe write it up in a blog.
Ugh, it took me a lot longer to put this together than I expected, but
if anybody is still interested, I did finally do a write-up on the
subject of a longest-job-first scheduler for make and why it doesn't
work in practice:
http://blog.melski.net/2010/08/23/faster-builds-through-smarter-scheduling-longest-job-first/
Best regards,
Eric Melski
http://blog.melski.net/
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