On Jun 23, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Eelco, > >> So a more precise name would be "--max-internal-parallelism" but >> that's rather wordy, and "--max-jobs" is already taken :-) >> >> Any suggestions for a short name? > > I'm not too happy with the name "build-cores" either, mostly because > it's virtually impossible for users to tell the difference between that > option and "build-max-jobs". The semantic purpose of those two values > clearly overlaps. > > One alternative I can think of is "build-threads". Not sure whether > that's much better, though. >
How about "usercores" or "ucores"? That should be enough of a hint to drop the hardware association. Sad that "jobs" has already been squatted ... "jobs" would have been a perfect name. hth 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
