[GHC] #910: --make should have a -j flag for parallel building

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#910: --make should have a -j flag for parallel building
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  Reporter:  igloo             |          Owner:                  
      Type:  feature request   |         Status:  new             
  Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:  _|_             
 Component:  Compiler          |        Version:  6.4.2           
Resolution:                    |       Keywords:                  
        Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
   Failure:  None/Unknown      |     Difficulty:  Unknown         
  Testcase:  N/A               |      Blockedby:                  
  Blocking:                    |        Related:                  
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Changes (by nh2):

 * cc: mail@… (added)


Comment:

 Can somebody give an idea about the difficulty of this?

 From an outsider's view, GHC has a very clear idea about module
 dependencies and in which order it has to build them so building
 independent modules in parallel shouldn't be too hard, should it?

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/910#comment:16>
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