Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Chet Ramey wrote in
 <211b74c0-caed-227f-ffae-b85868ef799f@case.edu>:
 |On 6/13/22 6:39 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
 |> In many Gnu projects, the 'configure' script is the biggest barrier to
 |> building because it takes soooo long to run. Is there some way that we
 |> could improve its performance without completely reengineering it, by
 |> improving Bash so that it can parallelize 'configure' scripts?
 |
 |Previous iterations of this research rewrote existing shell scripts based
 |on a database of annotations about individual commands, without any changes
 |to the shell itself. Unless that's changed, you can experiment with Pash
 |and Pash-JIT immediately.

I wondered how they handle (file-descriptor) resource exhaustion.

--steffen
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