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authorRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>2021-09-06 10:00:14 -0400
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2021-09-18 13:03:45 +0100
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ref-manual: add potential of parallelism to defn of "Task"
(From yocto-docs rev: 2e80de272b987c70374a1758e71c5c1371054d1f) Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <foss@0leil.ṅet> Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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367 section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual. 367 section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual.
368 368
369 :term:`Task` 369 :term:`Task`
370 A unit of execution for BitBake (e.g. 370 A per-recipe unit of execution for BitBake (e.g.
371 :ref:`ref-tasks-compile`, 371 :ref:`ref-tasks-compile`,
372 :ref:`ref-tasks-fetch`, 372 :ref:`ref-tasks-fetch`,
373 :ref:`ref-tasks-patch`, and so forth). 373 :ref:`ref-tasks-patch`, and so forth).
374 One of the major benefits of the build system is that, since each
375 recipe will typically spawn the execution of numerous tasks,
376 it is entirely possible that many tasks can execute in parallel,
377 either tasks from separate recipes or independent tasks within
378 the same recipe, potentially up to the parallelism of your
379 build system.
374 380
375 :term:`Toaster` 381 :term:`Toaster`
376 A web interface to the Yocto Project's :term:`OpenEmbedded Build System`. 382 A web interface to the Yocto Project's :term:`OpenEmbedded Build System`.