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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
* NightStrike wrote on Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 06:14:22PM CEST:
> On 6/22/08, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think it would only be a few days of work for somebody familiar with
> > Tcl to add -j support to DejaGNU. I think that would be a very useful
> > contribution to gcc development.
> Now what you could do (though I don't know how "hackey" it is) would
> be to run each .exp file separately and run a script to combine the
> results after the fact and create a new table of results data and new
> sum/log files.
Has anybody ever looked at using threading capabilities of tcl directly?
Parallel DejaGNU could benefit other packages too. There is a thread
pools package (tpool.html, linked from <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2770>) but I
have no idea how functional it is in practice; likely the GCC testsuite
would need at least a bit of restructuring, too.
Cheers,
Ralf (who'd love to look into it but I doesn't have time ATM)