From adam at seering.org  Fri Apr 26 16:50:21 2013
From: adam at seering.org (Adam Seering)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:50:21 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Speeding up build-from-source
Message-ID: <517A942D.7000904@seering.org>

Hi,
	I've been playing around with the R source code a little; mostly just 
trying to familiarize myself.  I have access to some computers on a 
reservation system; so I've been reserving a computer, downloading and 
compiling R, and going from there.

	I'm finding that R takes a long time to build, though.  (Well, ok, 
maybe 5 minutes -- I'm impatient :-) )  Most of that time, it's sitting 
there byte-compiling some internal package or another, which uses just 
one CPU core so leaves the system mostly idle.

	I'm just curious if anyone has thought about parallelizing that process?

Thanks,
Adam



[Rd] Speeding up build-from-source
Adam Seering