Re: automake and DualCore

2006-07-04 Thread Stefan Puiu
Well, the ccache project page (ccache.samba.org) says ccache is based on compilercache: "The idea came from Erik Thiele [,who] wrote the original compilercache program as a bourne shell script. ccache is a re-implementation of Erik's idea in C with more features and better performance." Then the

Re: automake and DualCore

2006-07-04 Thread Jim Lynch
Dalibor Topic wrote: O If you're building C/C++ code, check out ccache and distcc as well. Thanks for the tip. While researching ccache I found compilercache. Can anyone comment on the relative merits of this wrt ccache? Thanks, Jim.

Re: automake and DualCore

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Hi, Am Mon, 3 Jul 2006 08:13:50 -0700 schrieb Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:02PM +0200, Thomas Porschberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > do Makefiles created from automake benefit from dualcore CPUs > > and is the build process speeded up ? > > that'd seem to be mo

Re: automake and DualCore

2006-07-03 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Thomas Porschberg schrieb: > do Makefiles created from automake benefit from dualcore CPUs > and is the build process speeded up ? Most Makefiles generated from automake are SMP safe and benefit from multiple processors if make's -j option is used. They usually also benefit from -j2 on sing

Re: automake and DualCore

2006-07-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:02PM +0200, Thomas Porschberg wrote: > Hi, > > do Makefiles created from automake benefit from dualcore CPUs > and is the build process speeded up ? that'd seem to be more of a question about the make tool you're using to process the makefiles. GNU make has the -j o

automake and DualCore

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Hi, do Makefiles created from automake benefit from dualcore CPUs and is the build process speeded up ? Are there any measurement data available ? (Background is that I plan to buy a new PC and would like to know if it is worthwhile to consider such a system.) Regards, Thomas --