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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: nnd@itfs.nsk.su
Subject: Re: Make and SMP - what can be done ?
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Hi nnd@itfs.nsk.su;  On 25-Aug-97 you wrote: 

... [ Some excellent analysis deleted ] ...

>     As a result my last successfull 'make -j12 buildworld'
>  produced 170.9% processor's usage and takes 2:54:00 as
>  opposed to 104.1% and 4:34:23 for 'make buildworld'
>  (without any patches).

I can't help it :-))  It takes only between 1:26 and 2:36 to do make world
here.  On a P6-200 UP.

Lately it has been taking only 7-28 minutes.  But this is another story :-)

This type of work IS useful.  We can expect make world to go to sub-hour
soon.  I still remember make world being mesured in days, on smaller O/Ss.

Simon