# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1319207002 25200
# Node ID a012d31df3807ca0d2a7b6cb03aa80a778749e82
# Parent  b6e64e348e471a291707f0d1bff33b86a098f0be
Made convert.pl work in parallel. Restored files in less than 2 minutes!

diff -r b6e64e348e47 -r a012d31df380 .hgignore
--- a/.hgignore	Fri Oct 21 07:12:40 2011 -0700
+++ b/.hgignore	Fri Oct 21 07:23:22 2011 -0700
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 build*
 
 test-files*
+
+output*
diff -r b6e64e348e47 -r a012d31df380 convert.pl
--- a/convert.pl	Fri Oct 21 07:12:40 2011 -0700
+++ b/convert.pl	Fri Oct 21 07:23:22 2011 -0700
@@ -277,14 +277,20 @@
 FF.spc);
 
 
+`mkdir ./output`;
+
 for (0..$#targets){
 
-
-  $command =  "./build/spc_convert -s 100" . " -i ./test-files/" . $sources[$_] . 
-    " -o ./output/" . $targets[$_];
-  print "$command\n";
-
-  `$command`;
-
+    my $pid = fork();
+    
+    if ($pid == 0) {
+    
+    $command =  "./build/spc_convert -s 100" . " -i ./test-files/" . 
+	$sources[$_] . " -o ./output/" . $targets[$_];
+    print "$command\n";
+    
+    `$command`;
+    exit(0);
+    }
 }