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

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