On 01/09/16 08:08, Dave Reisner wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:18:32PM +0200, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
The second probably would not be accepted...
I urge you to reconsider. Parallelization increases the speed of this
I don't think anyone is suggesting that packaging multiple things in parallel isn't useful. I already suggested that nothing needs to be implemented in bacman proper in order for you to parallelize the work. You can write your own "pbacman" as simply as:
for arg; do bacman "$arg" & done; wait
There is a huge difference between flooding your system with ~1000 jobs and tightly controlling the maximum number. Adjusting the precise number of jobs enables you to organize your resources which itself is desirable.
Then use a program like 'parallel' which has this sort of knob. I really wonder what it is you're doing that requires running bacman with a large number of packages with any regularity.
Gathering the files etc takes no time. It is really the compression that is being made parallel. If only there was a way to set compression to use mutlithreading... As I already stated, I'm not looking to accept the parallel patch. A