> Hongli Lai wrote: > ... Are you using a Mac? I noticed this output from 'top' for single-threaded rake:
% rake apache2 2150 cc1plus 48.4% 0:00.65 1 13 45 30M+ 4132K+ 32M+ 60M+ 2149 cc1plus 47.4% 0:00.64 1 13 45 29M+ 4128K+ 32M+ 60M+ 2148 cc1plus 47.0% 0:00.63 1 13 43 29M+ 3852K+ 32M+ 60M+ 2147 cc1plus 46.3% 0:00.63 1 13 43 29M+ 3852K+ 32M+ 60M+ It's already parallelized! gcc spawns four separate compilers in parallel when given the switches -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64. Unless you have > 4 cores, -j will probably not make this faster :) James M. Lawrence _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
