Greetings,
I'm happy to report that my article entitled "Parallelizing Quickref"
has been accepted to the 12th European Lisp Symposium, to be held in
Genova on April 1-2 2019. The abstract is given below. I will also give
a demo session of Quickref itself at the <Programming> conference.
Quickref is a global documentation project for Common Lisp software.
It builds a website containing reference manuals for Quicklisp
libraries. Each library is first compiled, loaded, and introspected.
From the collected information, a Texinfo file is generated, which is
then processed into HTML. Because of the large number of libraries in
Quicklisp, doing this sequentially may require several hours of
processing. We report on our experiments parallelizing Quickref.
Experimental data on the morphology of Quicklisp libraries has been
collected. Based on this data, we are able to propose a number of
parallelization schemes that reduce the total processing time by a
factor of 3.8 to 4.5, depending on the exact situation.
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