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Date:      Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:15:37 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removing wait union
Message-ID:  <20020603181537.A37707@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CFC00A9.BD98B7BD@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:50:01PM -0700
References:  <20020602010108.B16166@espresso.q9media.com> <20020603011903.Y2566-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020603162508.A34224@xor.obsecurity.org> <3CFC00A9.BD98B7BD@mindspring.com>

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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:50:01PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:22:14AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > I think the only potential problem is use of the compatibility cruft
> > > in deprecware outside the base system.  It would be useful to have a
> > > quick way to determine how many ports a change in a standard header
> > > affects.
> > 
> > I'm always happy to test proposed patches on the ports cluster.
> 
> I think the problem needs something other than the ports cluster.
> 
> The ports cluster is designed to keep dependencies seperate, so it
> serializes a lot of things that could otherwise be done in parallel,
> to ensure dependency order is maintained.

In practise this isn't an issue.  I haven't obtained accurate
statistics, but the cluster runs at full capacity for pretty much the
entire build.

Kris

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