Threading the compiler

[H. J. Lu]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:38:07PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> How many hunks do we need, well, today I want 8 for 4.2 and 16 for  
> mainline, each release, just 2x more.  I'm assuming nice, equal sized  
> hunks.  For larger variations in hunk size, I'd need even more hunks.
> 
> Or, so that is just an off the cuff proposal to get the discussion  
> started.
> 
> Thoughts?

Will use C++ help or hurt compiler parallelism? Does it really matter?


H.J.