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Fun fact: GNU Parallel was originally a wrapper script that used `make` for the parallelization: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html https://www.
by ole_tange 10y ago
Fun fact: GNU Parallel was originally a wrapper script that used `make` for the parallelization: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html
- rdtsc 10y agoHa! Really cool. That was a fun fact! Make was right there under my nose I just never imagined using it for anything but compiling and building things. In that case I was forced by circumstances (was developing on a constrained ancient version of RHEL), couldn't use GNU Parallel and someone suggested `make`. The use case of obvious once a co-worker mentioned it. But it was definitely It was one of the memorable "thinking outside the box" example as they say.