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[[!tag wishlist]]
[My ikiwiki instance](http://www.ipol.im/) is quite heavy. 674M of data in the source repo, 1.1G in its .git folder.
Lots of \[[!img ]] (~2200), lots of \[[!teximg ]] (~2700). A complete rebuild takes 10 minutes.
We could use a big machine, with plenty of CPUs. Could some multi-threading support be added to ikiwiki, by forking out all the external heavy plugins (imagemagick, tex, ...) and/or by processing pages in parallel?
Disclaimer: I know nothing of the Perl approach to parallel processing.
> I agree that it would be lovely to be able to use multiple processors to speed up rebuilds on big sites (I have a big site myself), but, taking a quick look at what Perl threads entails, and taking into acount what I've seen of the code of IkiWiki, it would take a massive rewrite to make IkiWiki thread-safe - the API would have to be completely rewritten - and then more work again to introduce threading itself. So my unofficial humble opinion is that it's unlikely to be done.
> Which is a pity, and I hope I'm mistaken about it.
> --[[KathrynAndersen]]
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