Just a note, it seems the Makefile generated (a long while ago with sphinx-quicktrast) doesn't pass the -j 4 on:
$ make html -j 4 sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees . _build/html Running Sphinx v1.3b1 On Monday, September 22, 2014 11:13:46 PM UTC+10, Georg Brandl wrote: > > Hi, > > in extension of the "parallel write" feature already introduced in 1.2, > I've now started on a "parallel read" functionality for 1.3. > > It is activated by the same "-jN" flag as the parallel write. On the > Python docs (a medium size docset) parallel build now gives a 2x speedup > with "-j4" on my 4-core machine. > > I'd be grateful if you consider trying this feature out with your docs, > and reporting any errors you may find. > > A caveat: Since parallel read involves updating all sorts of inventories > on the build environment object, many extensions that are not aware of > parallel read will not work correctly; some may even never work. > > Therefore extensions have to declare explicitly that they are fine with > parallel read/write, see [1] for details. Sphinx will warn you if an > extension is not compatible and fall back to serial operation. > > Please don't hesitate to give any feedback, including questions on how > to adapt your extensions :) > > cheers, > Georg > > > [1] http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/extdev/index.html#extension-metadata > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
