Fetching

[Jeremy Lavergne]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2009-8-13 00:49, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> With the advent of 1.8.0, we will have a faster dependency search.   
>> This will allow us to quickly find all the ports associated with a  
>> build and begin downloading them.  While we could perform all these  
>> downloads before we commence building, why not have them be done in  
>> parallel [1]?
>
> I'd take it further and do everything in parallel if possible. This  
> would of course require expressing the dependency graph on a per- 
> phase basis, and there would need to be limits on how many ports  
> should be in a given phase at once (based on available bandwidth for  
> fetch, available CPUs/RAM for build, etc).

I thought we already had the dependencies separated by phase in 1.8.0?

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