[pacman-dev] Paralellising integrity checks

[Allan McRae]

On 20/02/11 09:22, Tavian Barnes wrote:
> On 19 February 2011 18:08, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Tavian Barnes
>> <tavianator at tavianator.com>  wrote:
>>> On 19 February 2011 06:28, Nezmer<git at nezmer.info>  wrote:
>>>>> You can look at how x264 guys implemented this. Check out
>>>>> x264_cpu_num_processors() in common/cpu.c in their source tree.
>>>
>>> Seems to be basically a more platform-complete version of what I'm
>>> doing here [1].  But yeah, we'd need something like that if pacman is
>>> supposed to run on everything unix-based.  I don't imagine we care
>>> much about Windows compatibility :)
>>
>> Take a look at git; it has plenty of code that has been tested for
>> doing this and it works just fine on Windows.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>>
>
> You mean git x264?  That's what I was looking at, I just meant that we
> wouldn't have to include that part in pacman, considering the rest of
> the code doesn't look like it would build on Windows anyway.
>

I'm fairly sure he meant git itself.

Allan