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  • From: Phil The Great <cerise AT deepthought.armory.com>
  • To: SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Probably taken care of already...
  • Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 20:01:53 -0700 (PDT)

On 10 Aug 2002, Dufflebunk wrote:
> Ummm... well... actualy the answer is it depends. The main question that
> has to be answered is where and when is the bottleneck? And is it worth
> the overhead?

True enough.

> In the case of compiling sources, I've heard varying answers. Some say
> that it speeds things up to run make with -j 2 on single processors,
> some say that's total baloney. Personaly, I don't know, and don't
> particularly care. But choice is good and you'll have a chance to find
> out for yourself in a few weeks.

I'm (obviously) of the camp that -j 2 is faster. I typically run -j 4
on littlegreenmen (my dual proc machine).

-Phil/CERisE





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