On Feb 23, 2020, at 09:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What would you recommend to a developer who doesn't want to run more than J >> = M + N - 1 concurrent jobs due to lilypond development? What values of M >> and N would serve best? > > Normally M=N= #cpus should be OK. A bit of extra parallelism doesn't > hurt, especially if you have hyperthreaded CPUs.
While that qualifies as guidance, I'm not sure you've heard me. Extra parallelism is unwelcome by definition in this case. Also, don't forget that although the parallelism is (sadly only) governed by the number of jobs, each job uses resources other than CPU time that the developer might be concerned about. Regards, — Dan