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On 9 Apr 2014, at 20:46, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> FWIW;
>=20
> I have been looking at what in the ports tree could make some use of =
libdispatch. So far the only candidates seem to be Apache's httpd MPM =
and maybe cups and Webkit.


If we had libdispatch in the base system, it would be fantastic to =
implement a '-j auto' switch for make. As-is, the -j flag is a bit of a =
hack: there is no static "correct" number of jobs to run in parallel, =
there is only "would I benefit from running some more work alongside the =
current mix".


Jon
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