[wtallis]

Do you know of a build system that can handle a source tree as large as an entire web browser without spawning a lot of processes?

It's hard to tell what, if anything, you are recommending here. Pass thousands of files to a single compiler invocation? Ignore the problems and stop trying to make process creation and clean-up faster?

[im3w1l]

> Pass thousands of files to a single compiler invocation?

Sure. Or pass it a file with all the filenames. Or have the compiler work as a server that takes compilation requests over a socket. It's not like passing thousands of filenames between two processes is a deep unsolved problem.

[gpderetta]

Or just spawn thousands of processes which has been done for the last 40 years without particular issues.

[mannykannot]

So, the solution to concurrency problems is to serialize everything?

[fit2rule]

"Concurrency is everything serialised, properly."

[mannykannot]

The posts we are replying to here seem to have a very narrow concept of what 'properly' entails in this case.