On 19 December 2012 17:19, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 19 December 2012 16:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >>> On 19 December 2012 04:32, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> > >>> > That went very well and the compile took a nice long time, even on a >>> quad core opteron : >>> > >>> > real 12255.97 >>> > user 10349.35 >>> > sys 1565.99 >>> >>> Presumably this is without -jN? Why would you want to do that? The >>> fact it's a quad-core is irrelevant if you only use one core. >> >> Depends on how much trust you place in -jX for X>1 and in my case, not much, yet. > > Why? The reason for my question is that you keep mentioning the time it takes to do a bootstrap or testsuite, which seems a bit pointless when there's a proven way to speed it up that you're not using. If you care about the time use -j, but if you don't, why keep mentioning it?
