Re: Parallelism a la make -j <n> / GNU parallel

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 08:45:57PM +0100, Colin McEwan wrote:
> My contention is that this is the sort of thing that more people will want to
> do more frequently, and that this is a reasonable argument in favour of
> including the functionality *correctly* in the core language for maximum
> expressiveness without external dependencies.

It seems like a rather complex and esoteric feature to be adding to a
shell, but that's ultimately Chet's decision to make, not ours.