I suspect that this anaysis has been mentioned on the Automake list
before but (if so) it is worth looking at again. It seems that few
packages benefit significantly from parallel builds. Many packages
use Automake, but they use it in a very inefficient way. Here is a
web page which shows the current pitiful state of parallel builds:
http://hubble.gforge.inria.fr/parallel-builds.html
Given that even desktop and laptop computers support 4 CPU cores and
that affordable server type hardware is available with as many as 64
CPU cores, it is useful if the build process of packages is redone so
that it benefits from compilation on modern hardware.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
