Re: Improvement on parallel make

[Brendan Heading]

Paul Smith writes: 

> There's one major disadvantage to this model: the .o's can no longer be
> considered intermediate files.  That means they cannot be removed after
> being added to the archive. 
>
> Although disk is a lot cheaper I have had people within the last year or
> so reject the "recreate the archive from scratch" method precisely
> because they (said they) couldn't afford the hit on disk space.

I see. I don't use Make this way but if there is a special concept of 
"intermediate files" then perhaps we instead need something that treats 
those in a special way whenever there is a parallel build in progress ? (an 
idea I'm throwing out there without having given it any thought)