On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 01:03:48PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 23:42:15 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > Just for my peace of mind, can someone assert that -j4 significantly > > increases build time even on single-core uniprocessor systems? > > I'll be also interested to see this > > > Incidentally, why -j4 and not -j2 or -j8? > > One reason (for me) is that we have 3 sets of tests + 1 network test, > which adds up to 4 things that can sensibly be run in parallel. > Anything more would be overkill (?). I want to make sure the network > test is kicked off in the beginning because it involves a lot of waiting > around. > > I assume it is ok for me to push this patch, because we are really > just going back to how we've been doing things for a while...
Technically, it will be differently (more?) parallelized, since AFAIK previously it was only doing -j4 in submakes, and those submakes weren't communicating their jobbiness to the parent via the MAKEFLAGS file descriptors. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
