Re: [Bug-wget] GSoC2012 - parallel downloading

[Micah Cowan]

On 03/17/2012 04:35 PM, Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am Adam, CS student from UE.
> Your idea for this GSoC is very exciting. I have experience with
> parallel programming with OpenMP, but I need dive deeper into wget code
> to find out, if OMP is applicable. A problem with OMP is it can not
> guarantee that IO operations will be held in proper order.
> 
> Do you have any preferred technologies/libs to parallelize downloading?
> Have you any detailed and strong vision of such feature, or is it "to be
> discussed"?

We hope to put up better information on exactly what the project on
concurrency will entail, on the wiki in the next day or two. I'll post
this fact here when that happens, and the GNU Ideas page should also be
updated shortly after.

-mjc