Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 52048 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2000 22:09:15 -0000 Received: from mercury.sun.com (192.9.25.1) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 21 Jun 2000 22:09:15 -0000 Received: from shorter.eng.sun.com ([129.144.123.35]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11844 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.157.164.14] (muc-rem-4.Germany.Sun.COM [129.157.164.14]) by shorter.eng.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id PAA05032 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:09:11 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:08:09 -0700 Subject: Re: asynchronous tasks From: James Duncan Davidson To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <000001bfd8b9$5d2c58c0$0c0b010a@paddler> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N on 2000/06/17 17:08, Rick Yazwinski at ricky@solect.com wrote: > Wouldn't this depend on the architecture's implementation of threads? I'd > expect on a truely multitasking box (Solaris or Linux, for example) with > multiple processors that you would see a performance improvement. Except that javac runs in a single thread I beleive. You can span a thread across processors. :) Note that I'm not for mt ant at all. > Has anyone brought up the potential of "distributed ant"? It kinda fits > with the async talk... Distrubted ant? Complexity overload anyone? .duncan