From: quixoticsycophant@...
Date: 2006-11-02T00:35:15+09:00
Subject: parallel tasks with rake ?

I was excited to switch my makefile system to rake, but I just noticed
rake lacks a (GNU) make option I can't live without: -j4.  It's like
"make & ; make & ; make & ; make &" but with the parallel jobs
properly synchronized.  On a quad-core machine this makes a world of
difference, being around four times faster than a simple 'make'.

As I understand it, rake should be able to determine which targets can
be built in parallel just as (GNU) make does.  rake's multitask
feature isn't quite right because it shouldn't be up to the user to
determine parallel vs non-parallel tasks.  In fact, the user should
probably never decide parallelism by fiat; even if the user happens to
be correct, it creates a maintenance problem whereby additional tasks
will eventually render the parallel assertion false.

Perhaps there is something I'm missing about 'multitask' ?