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| author | Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org> | 2019-05-15 21:45:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-05-15 21:45:18 (GMT) |
| commit | 1a2dd82f56bd813aacc570e172cefe55a8a41504 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c8815834378688cb0fd7d6596eee4ae1aadefea /Doc | |
| parent | c981ad16b0f9740bd3381c96b4227a1faa1a88d9 (diff) | |
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bpo-36786: Run compileall in parallel during "make install" (GH-13078)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/compileall.rst b/Doc/library/compileall.rst index 5e08616..bb5000a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/compileall.rst +++ b/Doc/library/compileall.rst @@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ Public functions The argument *workers* specifies how many workers are used to compile files in parallel. The default is to not use multiple workers. If the platform can't use multiple workers and *workers* argument is given, - then sequential compilation will be used as a fallback. If *workers* is + then sequential compilation will be used as a fallback. If *workers* + is 0, the number of cores in the system is used. If *workers* is lower than ``0``, a :exc:`ValueError` will be raised. *invalidation_mode* should be a member of the @@ -184,6 +185,9 @@ Public functions .. versionchanged:: 3.7 The *invalidation_mode* parameter was added. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + Setting *workers* to 0 now chooses the optimal number of cores. + .. function:: compile_file(fullname, ddir=None, force=False, rx=None, quiet=0, legacy=False, optimize=-1, invalidation_mode=py_compile.PycInvalidationMode.TIMESTAMP) Compile the file with path *fullname*. Return a true value if the file |