Tavian Barnes

I’m Tavian, a software developer interested in low-level, high-performance software across many domains. Currently a Staff Engineer at Shopify , I’ve previously worked at the University of Waterloo , Microsoft Research Montreal , a startup called Maluuba , and the University of Calgary .

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Parallel ./configure

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I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but ./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it does to actually do the build.