Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > Hello, > > I have just two core machine, so I can not check it. But what I think > GNU Make still not spawns only one process when compiling code. > > In fact from my understanding of GCC there is no any objections to > compile files in parallel. Compiler parses header files independently > for each compilation unit so there is no any problem to spawn compiler > on each core. > > So building Debian on AMD Threadripper could be in theory 128 times > faster.
Sure. https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7f32-benchmarks-and-review/3/ shows the results of different processors on the task of building a linux kernel. make's parallelism can be changed with -j -dsr-