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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-05-11T18·05+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-05-11T18·05+0000
commitc8d3882cdc8f9e22c58af285c1996265c1af75d5 (patch)
treebca454268647fa6edf6cd349fc92543b9789d188 /doc/dev
parentaea436503e9126b06cd15acf1f0c6b738ffbc7de (diff)
* True parallel builds. Nix can now run as many build jobs in
  parallel as possible (similar to GNU Make's `-j' switch).  This is
  useful on SMP systems, but it is especially useful for doing builds
  on multiple machines.  The idea is that a large derivation is
  initiated on one master machine, which then distributes
  sub-derivations to any number of slave machines.  This should not
  happen synchronously or in lock-step, so the master must be capable
  of dealing with multiple parallel build jobs.  We now have the
  infrastructure to support this.

  TODO: substitutes are currently broken.

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