Re: Parrllel Testing

[Tom Browder]

On 2/12/08, Ben Elliston <address@hidden> wrote:
> > OK, Ben, for this layman and the bottom line: will doing make -jN+
> > for a N-processor host give a theoretical 1/O(N) speed-up for the
> > test cycle for --enable-languages=all?
>
> Sadly, no.  The testsuites for the different languages are a different
> size.  To save you the suspense, the C testsuite dominates the whole
> show, but you can finish the other testsuites while you wait.  :-)

Ben (or anyone) is there any work being done to make dejagnu (or gcc
in particular) able to use multiple processors for a testsuite?

Thanks.

-Tom