That just confuses me :(

Do I need to type

make -j 4

and hope for some concurrency?

or

export MAKEFLAGS="-j2 --load-average=2"
make

as I was pointed to off-list?

Would someone update the README that comes with Rakudo Star with this
information, please?

regards
   Gabor


On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Timo Paulssen <t...@wakelift.de> wrote:
> Sadly, the majority of rakudo's and nqp's compilation is serialized (due
> to the dependencies between the individual pieces).
>
> If you build more than one backend at the same time, i.e. moar + jvm,
> you can build both in parallel.
>
> On the other hand, the biggest chunk of time is spent compiling the core
> setting, which commonly takes a minute on moarvm.
>
> nqp behaves very similarly.
>
> moarvm on the other hand can compile all .c files at the same time and
> use up as many cores as there are .c files, but it compiles so fast that
> it's hardly worth anything.
>
> hope that helps
>   - Timo

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