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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-05-11T18·05+0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-05-11T18·05+0000 |
commit | c8d3882cdc8f9e22c58af285c1996265c1af75d5 (patch) | |
tree | bca454268647fa6edf6cd349fc92543b9789d188 /doc/dev | |
parent | aea436503e9126b06cd15acf1f0c6b738ffbc7de (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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