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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mk: parallelize make config
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:18:13 +0100
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Hi Ferruh,

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 01:50:34 +0000, Ferruh Yigit
<ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
> make config dependency resolving was always running serial,
> parallelize it for better performance.
> 
> $ time make T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc config
> real    0m12.633s
> 
> $ time make -j8 T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc config
> real    0m1.826s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

I have a patch that fix the same issue (configuration takes to long),
but done differently. It is more intrusive, since it rework the way
DEPDIRS are used, but it does not require to use -j.

I'm sending it as a reply to this thread.

Regards,
Olivier