Barnes: Parallel ./configure
Tavian Barnes takes on\
the tedious process of waiting for configure scripts to run.

I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but ./configure can only
manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project
takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it does to
actually do the build.

The purpose of a ./configure script is basically to run the
compiler a bunch of times and check which runs succeeded. In this
way it … ⌘ Read more