Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:58:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, peter@spinner.DIALix.COM Subject: Re: make -j# Message-ID: <199610140658.QAA21439@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe >.. I find that a simple 'make' is faster than any setting of -j# .. > >This is probably more dependent on the machine in question than anything, >including things like cache speed, ram speed, disk speed and architecture >(ie: scsi vs. ide etc). -j3 added to -pipe slows things down slightly on a 32MB system with a slow disk here. System time is > 20% larger. The slowdown is larger for `make -j3 2>foo' because -jN botches stderr. Steve Price is fixing this. Bruce
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