Hello Daniel,

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:44:21 -0400 Daniel Holth dholth@gmail.com wrote:

As an option, compileall should use a multiprocessing Pool() to speed up its work.

This kind of concrete proposal can be brought directly on the bug tracker, no need to go through python-ideas.

Regards

Antoine.

On 02/10/12 06:44, Daniel Holth wrote:

As an option, compileall should use a multiprocessing Pool() to speed up its work.

Sounds like overkill.

In my experience, very few ideas are so self-evident that they don't need any explanation, and this is certainly not one of them. What is your rationale for why compileall should use multiprocessing?