Strictly speaking, the compiler doesn't need to be multithreaded; the build system could also support running multiple instances of the compiler at the same time.
Reference "make -jx" on Linux and other UNIX-like systems. With a single quad-core CPU you would run "make -j5", and it would run 5 copies of the C (or C++ or Java or Fortran or Pascal or ...) compiler at once. Ken Schaefer wrote: > Unless your compiler is multithreaded, then all these extra cores > aren't really going to help you much. The slightly faster clock speed > on the Q9550 would probably win out. -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
