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Re: Doc correction regarding parallel builds
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Daniel Egger <degger at fhm dot edu>
- Cc: GCC Developer Mailinglist <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:14:04 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Doc correction regarding parallel builds
- References: <1054556220.24296.28.camel@sonja>
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Daniel Egger wrote:
> In install.texi one can find:
> "If you have a multiprocessor system you can use @samp{make bootstrap
> MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2} or just @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap} [...]
>
> What about: "In most cases, using a value bigger than the number of
> processors in your machine will result in smaller latency hits to read
> the source files thus improving overall throughput; this is especially
> true for slow harddrives and network filesystems."
This looks good. Do you think you could submit a patch to install.texi?
(I'd just use "disk" instead of "harddrive".)
Gerald
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