[Rd] Speeding up build-from-source

[Adam Seering]

Hi,
	I've been playing around with the R source code a little; mostly just 
trying to familiarize myself.  I have access to some computers on a 
reservation system; so I've been reserving a computer, downloading and 
compiling R, and going from there.

	I'm finding that R takes a long time to build, though.  (Well, ok, 
maybe 5 minutes -- I'm impatient :-) )  Most of that time, it's sitting 
there byte-compiling some internal package or another, which uses just 
one CPU core so leaves the system mostly idle.

	I'm just curious if anyone has thought about parallelizing that process?

Thanks,
Adam