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

[Chet Ramey]

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.

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