Re: automake and DualCore

[Thomas Porschberg]

Hi,

Am Mon, 3 Jul 2006 08:13:50 -0700
schrieb Dalibor Topic <address@hidden>:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:02PM +0200, Thomas Porschberg wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > do Makefiles created from automake benefit from dualcore CPUs 
> > and is the build process speeded up ?
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> 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 option to execute jobs
> in parallel, and that in general benefits from having more CPUs
> around, assuming your memory allows for all the jobs to be executed
> in parallel without swapping.
> 
> If you're building C/C++ code, check out ccache and distcc as well.

Yes, I use ccache.

Thank you.
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> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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> > Regards,
> > Thomas
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