supermax9 wrote: > My question is very simple - can I achieve a descrease of overall compiling > time with gcc on a multiprocessor system? gcc itself is single-threaded, so a single instance of it can not benefit from multiple cores. However, you can instruct make to launch multiple jobs in parallel with the -j argument, and so assuming that your Makefile does not contain incorrect or inaccurate dependency relations (i.e. it is "parallel make safe"), and assuming that you have multiple files to compile, then you can in fact take advantage of as many cores/processors as the system has. Brian
