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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:47:37 -0700
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From: Greg Shaffer <gshaffer@nosc.mil>
Subject: Re: Make and SMP - what can be done ?
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I sent this to current the other day and got no response, so I thought I
would send it to smp and see what happens.

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>Subject: Re: Make and SMP - what can be done ?
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>Around the middle of August there was some discussion on how to make 'make
>world' operate safely in a parallel mode. There were even some patches to
>make,  *.mk and Makefiles to support this. I applied these patches to my
>system and was very impressed with the performance improvement. Did these
>patches ever get roles into the source tree, it would be a shame to loss
>them.
>
>Thanks
>Greg Shaffer
>