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Re: starting compile server - advice needed
- From: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:39:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: starting compile server - advice needed
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 04:26 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
Should we autostart the server?
That is the question I asked. (I mainly asked *how*, but I also asked
"should we".)
I'd vote no. It's easy enough for people who want to use this feature
to modify their makefiles, and a project maintainer understands
lifetime issues better than compiler heuristics can.
I'd also vote for allowing users to start up multiple, named servers.
One major worry, if we don't do that, is that we might have several
projects trying to use servers at the same time. Unless we're trying
to make gcc reentrant (yikes!), that'll mean locking and contention,
and it could end up hurting performance more than it helps.
--Matt