Multi-Process Build - How To

[jimdempseyatthecove]

When using IVF on Windows VS.NET 2003 is there a way toperformthe build using multiple processes? i.e. have multiple compilations occure concurrently. Link and librarian would have to be synchronized.

Jim Dempsey

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Not that I am aware of. VS2005 has the ability to build multiple projects in parallel, but that may not work for Fortran (and isn't what you asked for.)

[jimdempseyatthecove]

Steve,

Perhaps you could ask your IDE integrators to put this on a wish list. This is not high priority sinc this is not a bug and my time is not valuable to Intel.

In addition to multiple projects in parallel also consideraddin each project in parallel. On a dual core desktop one would expect at least a 4x improvement for large projects (since there is a significant amount of I/O).

Jim

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I would suggest that you file a Feature Request issue with Intel Premier Support. I note that for C++ projects there is a third-party tool called Incredibuild which can do single-project builds in parallel. We have mentioned Fortran support to them but haven't gone any further. Note that getting the build order right is not trivial!

Something we are looking at is threading the compiler itself.