2007/11/27, Galloth <lordgalloth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * to put more machines with more cores per chip (quadcore?), > > bigger caches (8 MiB L2?) and higher frequencies > Does it means that gcc can use several cores for one compilation (If > yes, how to activate this, please) or this is the same idea as using > make -j (several compilations at once) It's the same problem of "Nine Woman Can't Have a Baby in One Month" "Nine Cores Can't Reduce a Compilation of 9 Seconds to One Second" I believe that it's possible to reduce it but it's very hardful. [ using 9 hardthreads (in hw, with complex combination of traps, paging and cores) instead of 9 softthreads in one process or of 9 processes ] J.C.Pizarro