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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:16:49 +0100
From:      Jonathan Anderson <jonathan.robert.anderson@gmail.com>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Compiler toolchain roadmap
Message-ID:  <420BB3D7-7F17-4E98-8442-910704C63312@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5345A3A5.5020400@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9 Apr 2014, at 20:46, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> FWIW;
> 
> 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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