Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!alicudi.usc.edu!crum From: crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Parallel Make Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 15:58:16 GMT References: <1991Jun10.035748.3335@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: alicudi.usc.edu In-reply-to: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu's message of 10 Jun 91 05:27:15 GMT Originator: crum@alicudi.usc.edu Competition between compilation processes for disk I/O is addressed significantly by caching, and NeXT Mach is pretty good at using available memory as a disk cache. I am using pmake on a four-processor Silicon Graphics system (4D/340VGX), and it works quite well. For me, a pmake(1) compile generally finishes in less than one fourth the time that make(1) requires for the same job. Silicon Graphics has included pmake(1) with IRIX for some time now. Maybe NeXT will enable Mach multiple processor support and include GNU-make in Release 3. Hope so. I would also very much like to see multiple display support extended beyond systems with NeXTdimension boards, e.g. so one can put multiple '040 boards in a cube and control multiple monochrome megapixel displays from a single keyboard and mouse. (If you also want these things, then please express your interest in them.) Gary