Subject: Re: Hyperthreading?
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/20/2003 21:52:02
Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> That's "-j2" with two CPU's vs. "-j2" with one CPU. You
> expect THAT to buy you something. The hyperthreading doesn't
> seem to make much of a difference for build.sh.

build without -j2 runs exactly one job at time,
so it's not surprising more CPUs (virtual or physical) don't
help there.

Jaromir
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