Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
José Matos wrote:On Friday 06 June 2008 22:12:40 Alfredo Braunstein wrote:faster than -j2 or was it a typo?Usually, yes. I use even -j4 on the desktop dual core.Good to know... I wonder why.
My understanding is that launching 2 compilation using one cpu is a good idea because while one process might be busy with memory work, the other would require more cpu. For two cpus, well, you do the math :-)
Abdel.