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diff --git a/doc/todo/parallel_possibilities.mdwn b/doc/todo/parallel_possibilities.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..178f95021 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/parallel_possibilities.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +One of my reasons for using haskell was that it provides the possibility of +some parallell processing. Although since git-annex hits the filesystem +heavily and mostly runs other git commands, maybe not a whole lot. + +Anyway, each git-annex command is broken down into a series of independant +actions, which has some potential for parallelism. + +Probably they would need to be split further. Each action currently has 3 +distinct phases, basically "check", "do", and "record". If the check action +returned a do action that returned a record action, then it could easily +make sense to parallelize the check actions and start on the do actions +(which probably won't parallelize well) while they are still being +generated, and possibly parallelize the record actions at the end. |