On Monday 2008-11-10 00:07, andrew wrote: >Hi, > >I have been experimenting a little with compiling MPlayer with make's >--jobs=n option. For example: > >+--------- >./configure >make --jobs=6 >su >make install >+------- > >This compiles MPlayer much faster on a dual-core processor machine >with not many other processes going on. Can I ask if many people have >used this option on uni / multi processor machines with MPlayer and >what sort of results have been achieved? Why ask to ask if you could just ask... The speedup is usually linear up to a certain limit induced by HW latency (or just not having all cores free). So what? It's not like make -j was invented just a week ago.
