> As a side note, always do make -jN where N is you number of CPUs plus one.
not necessarily. gcc is often (as in the kernel Makefiles) run with -pipe,
so that it's actually cpp|cc1|gas for each file. that means that make will
create up to N parallel gcc's, each of which will have two children for a
total possible parallelism of 3N. whether the gcc passes are concurrent
or no depends on the pipe implementation, etc.
in any case, I've only got measly dual-processor machines,
and find that make -j2 is optimal when using gcc -pipe.
regards, mark hahn.
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