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authorJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2021-06-29 21:13:25 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-06-29 21:13:25 +0300
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Merge pull request #8882 from xclaesse/msubprojects-parallel
msubprojects: Run action on all subprojects in parallel
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@@ -228,7 +228,9 @@ meson setup builddir
{{ subprojects_usage.inc }}
-Manages subprojects of the Meson project.
+Manages subprojects of the Meson project. *Since 0.59.0* commands are run on
+multiple subprojects in parallel by default, use `--num-processes=1` if it is
+not desired.
{{ subprojects_arguments.inc }}
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/subprojects_command_parallel.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/subprojects_command_parallel.md
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+## Parallelized `meson subprojects` commands
+
+All `meson subprojects` commands are now run on each subproject in parallel by
+default. The number of processes can be controlled with `--num-processes`
+argument.
+
+This speeds up considerably IO-bound operations such as downloads and git fetch.