Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-21 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2013-02-21 00:06, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > My problem today was really about issuing "make ptest" and having to > wait for 5 or 10 minutes (when I set MAKE="make -j8") before the tests > really began although no files were changed, and so there was no reason > for Sphinx to do anything at all.

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-20 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:03:04 PM UTC+1, fhivert wrote: > > Hi Jean-Pierre, > > > > > * A parallel build (using the usual MAKE="make -jN") can speed up > the > > > > docbuilding time. Note that the speed-up factor is closer to N/2 > than to > > > > N because two passes are neede

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-20 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi Jean-Pierre, > > > * A parallel build (using the usual MAKE="make -jN") can speed up the > > > docbuilding time. Note that the speed-up factor is closer to N/2 than to > > > N because two passes are needed now. > > > > This is not quite true. I don't have precise timing. Put most of the

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-20 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:40:43 PM UTC+1, fhivert wrote: > > Dear All, > > > * A parallel build (using the usual MAKE="make -jN") can speed up the > > docbuilding time. Note that the speed-up factor is closer to N/2 than to > > N because two passes are needed now. > > This is not q

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-19 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear All, > * A parallel build (using the usual MAKE="make -jN") can speed up the > docbuilding time. Note that the speed-up factor is closer to N/2 than to > N because two passes are needed now. This is not quite true. I don't have precise timing. Put most of the time of the first pass is

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-19 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 at 12:13PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > * A parallel build (using the usual MAKE="make -jN") can speed up the > docbuilding time. Note that the speed-up factor is closer to N/2 than to > N because two passes are needed now. I'll take O(N) over O(1) any day! ...and with many

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-19 Thread kcrisman
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:15:43 AM UTC-5, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:19:05 AM UTC, David Roe wrote: > >> Sounds fantastic! For those of us running with only one core, will these >> two processes increase the buildtime by a factor of two? >> > > Not quite sinc

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-19 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:19:05 AM UTC, David Roe wrote: > Sounds fantastic! For those of us running with only one core, will these > two processes increase the buildtime by a factor of two? > Not quite since no html is generated on the first pass. Though I doubt that there are many sin

Re: [sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-19 Thread David Roe
Sounds fantastic! For those of us running with only one core, will these two processes increase the buildtime by a factor of two? Or is there a single process option similar to the old system? David On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > Sage-5.8.beta0 will contain a new driv

[sage-devel] New parallel docbuilder (#6495) ready

2013-02-19 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Sage-5.8.beta0 will contain a new driver for the building of the documentation. This has consequences for all Sage developers: * The documentation is built in two passes, similar to how you usually need to run (la)tex twice to get all references correct. * Links are possible from other documents