also, separately, i'm making a version of

process_executor

that expands the API to support splitting inputs across parallel process invocations, and also to support registering a daemon execution (e.g. "start up a nailgun"). the upstream remote execution API has some thoughts about this but this

process_executor

is specifically tuned to invoke processes on the local machine (current MVP: compiling scrooge code to scala extremely fast by using shared memory). i think i can have a prototype to kick around this weekend, have spent a bit of time on this already so it's not out of nowhere. this is something i hope to be working on for twitter soon