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  • From: julian AT openit.de (Julian v. Bock)
  • To: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: Phil The Great <cerise AT deepthought.armory.com>, Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>, SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Probably taken care of already...
  • Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:46:15 +0200

Hi

>>>>> "D" == Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net> writes:

D> In the case of compiling sources, I've
D> heard varying answers. Some say that it speeds things up to run
D> make with -j 2 on single processors, some say that's total
D> baloney.

Depends on how much ram you have. If there is enough to hold all
compilation processes completely in ram you get a benefit
(usually <5%) because the cpu does not have to idle when one
compilation process does disk io.

Julian




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