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To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Some SMP timing tests. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "01 Nov 1997 16:47:28 +0100."
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Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 10:52:18 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> If you have a Makefile with 5 targets (e.g. 4 *.c files, 1 manpage),
> make can only create 5 jobs at once. Not surprising ;-)

A good point, but this doesn't quite explain the behavior during
compiling things like libc, which has many targets which could be
parallelized.

					Jordan