[pca] concurrent download threads
Martin Paul
martin at par.univie.ac.at
Thu Apr 17 15:14:56 CEST 2008
I just put a new development release of pca online, with this change:
* Add option for concurrent patch downloads (--threads=NUM)
It's a rather big change in code actually - I've finally integrated the
patch by Chris Reece which he made available at:
http://www.sparsezone.com/pca/
It adds the functionality to download multiple patches from SunSolve in
parallel. This can speedup downloads of big patch sets dramatically. You
will need a perl with threading support compiled in (Solaris'
/usr/bin/perl unfortunately doesn't have it). "pca --help" or "perl
-V:useithreads" will tell you about threads support in your copy of perl.
Kudos to Chris, who has been supporting and developing the patch over a
long time, and has been listening to every proposal I made to make the
patch integrate smoothly.
Martin.
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