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Re: Threading the compiler

From: Chris Lattner <clattner at apple dot com>
To: Geert Bosch <bosch at adacore dot com>
Cc: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:13:10 -0800
Subject: Re: Threading the compiler
References: <D5E71E91-8A8D-4472-95DD-8C03C1E218C8@apple.com> <BC1CEB9F-ED21-49B1-AE64-D5BD0D0EA251@adacore.com>

On Nov 10, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Geert Bosch wrote:

The common case is that people just don't use the -j feature
of make because
  1) they don't know about it
  2) their IDE doesn't know about it
  3) they got burned by bad Makefiles
  4) it's just too much typing

Don't forget: 5) running 4 GCC processes at once at -O3 runs out of memory and starts swapping, limiting me to -j2 or -j3 on a 2G 4-core box.

This is helped with threading.

-Chris

References:
- Threading the compiler
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: Threading the compiler
  - From: Geert Bosch

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