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 --

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

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