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Re: [Patch #7327] Add the option -J / --auto-jobs to auto-decide a sane
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Edward Welbourne |
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Re: [Patch #7327] Add the option -J / --auto-jobs to auto-decide a sane number of job slots |
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Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:54:30 +0100 |
> This patch adds the option -J / --auto-jobs, which uses the
> sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) function to decide the number of job
> slots to use.
This sounds like a highly useful feature to me. I and my colleagues
use diverse clumsy rules of thumb to decide what value to give to -j
and -l; having a command-line option that knows how to Do The Right
Thing would be ideal - especially on our build farm, as Bjørn noted.
Eddy.