To Paul D. Smith: "make -j" as a great tool for SMP and cluster p arallelization

[Khamenia, Valery]

Dear Paul, 

  I can't get through your spam filters probably,
  so I try to contact you via this mail list.

  I use "make -j" as a great tool for launch
  parallel computations on SSI cluster. I use it 
  in biotech field, but it is of course worth of 
  doing the same in other fields too.

  All is quite fine, but the "make" is inadequately 
  slow with its substitution references. I've made 
  a patch to "sindex" function and that makes a *great* 
  speed up. It was a bit discussed here:

  http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=2903

  For your convenience the final version of sindex function 
  is attached in "p.c" file to this email also. I hope the 
  code in this small patch is very clear.

  To test the speed up one could use the test "Makefile",
  which is also attached to this email.

  A lot of users surely will be very thankful to you if you 
  could apply this patch.



Thank you in advance, Paul!
My best regards to you.

P.S. thank you for Cc your replies to me

--
Valery

p.c
Description: Binary data

Makefile
Description: Binary data