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Re: Benchmarking kicad compilation on CPUs released 6 years apart

 

On 30/10/2019 16:20, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 07:00:48PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> 
>> $ make -j12
> 
>> real	7m59.758s
>> user	86m44.231s
>> sys	5m9.724s
> 
> That is more than 1100% CPU usage, with -j12, so very close to full usage.
> 
> How is that even possible, don't you have that two minute phase at the end
> of building pcbnew_kiface where it's just building pcbnew_wrap.cxx.o and
> everything else is done?
> 

IIRC pcbnew_wrap.cxx is only generated when Kicad is built with Python
support. I never build it with Python enabled ;-).

Tom


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