28 Apr
2007
28 Apr
'07
4:29 a.m.
Hello all, Multiple-core processor are increasing in popularity so, what about adding an option in CRUX to make use of these extra cores? Specifically, we could set some sort of "flag" that would replace "make" with "make -j3" when building ports. As an example, I have a dual processor PIII 700 machine with 512 MB RAM: /usr/ports/opt/xchat: "make" -> build time = 2:35 "make -j3" -> build time = 1:55 /usr/ports/opt/gqview: "make" -> build time = 2:11 "make -j3" -> build time = 1:20 These are small programs; but think about the time saved with firefox or qt3 or kde. So, what do you think? Chris