Bug 137706

Summary:	parallelize locale-gen
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brian Harring (RETIRED) <ferringb>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	releng
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	locale-gen-parallel.patch

Description Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-23 04:00:00 UTC

simple lil patch.
downside?  ordering number wise is debatable- proper enough imo, but could see some complaints.

the parallelization also isn't perfect; cause it's bash, resorting to a round robin loop through a ring buffer; one slow ass locale to generate, holds up starting others in parallel when it waits for that generation to complete.

Meanwhile, reduction of 9m10s to 5m30s for me for dual core, so... worth it.

Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-23 04:02:33 UTC

Created attachment 89890 [details, diff]
locale-gen-parallel.patch

Comment 2 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-02 03:44:07 UTC

*bump*.
comments?

Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-08 18:39:05 UTC

Any status on this one?

Comment 4 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-08 19:01:07 UTC

minor bug in the patch,
+	    ${GOOD}-t, --thread${NOMRAL}           Number of threads to run
should be ${NORMAL}, not NOMRAL

aside from that, still works fine for me.

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-09-23 07:28:41 UTC

touched up & merged