Everyone points at make and says, "use something better". They point at Rake, they point at Maven. However, Make has one feature that I really need, that I rely on to speed up builds: parallel dependency construction.

The last time I checked, neither Maven nor Rake do this properly. Maven runs everything inside a single VM. Who wants to have to worry about multithreading in their unit tests? Rake requires thread support in the underlying Ruby interpreter (why?).

I've got 64+ hardware threads (Sparc T4-1) all sitting there waiting to be spun up and do my bidding. Please help me to convert electricity to heat!