[New-bugs-announce] [issue5309] setup.py doesn't parallelize extension module compilation

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

When run with "make -jN", the Python compilation process is able to
parallelize across N concurrent processes for the interpreter core, but
extension modules are still compiled sequentially.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 82447
nosy: pitrou, tarek
priority: low
severity: normal
status: open
title: setup.py doesn't parallelize extension module compilation
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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