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diff --git a/doc/todo/parallel_possibilities.mdwn b/doc/todo/parallel_possibilities.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9c0e69e29 --- /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. + +Each action has 3 distinct phases, basically "check", "perform", and +"cleanup". The perform actions are probably parellizable; the cleanup may be +(but not if it has to run git commands to stage state; it can queue +commands though); the check should be easily parallelizable, although they +may access the disk or run minor git query commands, so would probably not +want to run too many of them at once. |