> So, I’d love to see the numbers for 5 and 20 to double check that 10 is the > right number to pick. This sort of refinement is trivial post checkin.
So, some timings with the patch, I think this is great. Doing the testing you suggest, changing the variable doesn't influence things much (at least for Fortran, and on this system). make -j32 -k check-fortran real 3m27.875s -> gcc_runtest_parallelize_counter_minor == 02 (several testsuite errors: binding_label_tests_10_main.f03, binding_label_tests_11_main.f03, class_45b.f03, class_4b.f03, class_4c.f03, coarray_29_2.f90, test_common_binding_labels_3_main.f03) real 3m26.234s -> gcc_runtest_parallelize_counter_minor == 05 (one additional testsuite error: whole_file_31.f90) real 3m36.405s -> gcc_runtest_parallelize_counter_minor == 10 real 3m38.736s -> gcc_runtest_parallelize_counter_minor == 20 check-c real 8m26.935s check-c++ real 7m4.165s check real 17m45.185s