Hello, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes: > On 04/03/10 06:01, Joey Degges wrote: > > diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c > > + --threads=N use no more than N threads to improve parallelism\n\ > > Threads is a bit of an implementation detail? > Perhaps it would be better to use --parallel so one > could move to multiprocess in future if desired?
--jobs is already used by make, so why not reuse that, if you decide to go with a command-line argument? That's pretty neutral in terms of how the parallelism is implemented internally, too. Cheers, Ralf
