On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:15:19PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > Geert's followup explained this seeming anomaly: he means that the crude > high-level granularity of "make -j" is enough to keep all cpus busy at 100%, > and I'm fairly persuaded by the arguments that, at the moment, that's > sufficient in most circumstances to get 99% of the benefit there to be had.
Currently the serial step is linking, and for the typical builds I do it is the bottleneck as the c/c++ -> o step is highly parallelizable. Figure out how to make the linker parallel, and then we can talk.
