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Compilation is not a good example of this, though. Parallel compilation is something that any language that allows for separate compilation has supported for de
by rbehrends 10y ago
Compilation is not a good example of this, though. Parallel compilation is something that any language that allows for separate compilation has supported for decades (make -j N at its most basic, with some language implementations providing more sophisticated support).
- burntsushi 10y agoGo has supported that too. But this particular change enables parallelism within a single compilation unit.
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- mtanski 10y agoYes, but often times you've been stuck with single threaded / single process linking. Also, why LLVM has spent time recently creating a fast(er) linker.