Excerpts from Christopher Done's message of Fri Jun 04 00:39:23 +0200 2010: > On 4 June 2010 00:05, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > > wasserman.louis: > >> What, if anything, stands in the way of parallelizing Cabal installs, make > >> -j > >> style? > > > > Parallelizing ghc --make > > > > http://vimeo.com/6572966 > > Unless Louis meant what's stopping cabal-install from installing > dependancies in parallel instead of serial? In which case; nothing?
I think cabal-install compiles Setup without starting ghc or such (I may be wrong). This would be fixable. If you want to volunteer try hack-nix. It's based on the Nix distribution system which provides this feature natively. You can even ask others computers to help building dependencies quite easily. Downside: At the moment it will pull all depndencies (including kernel headers and glibc..) if you install it on a common linux system. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe