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[Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, torben fjerdingstad wrote:

> Se f.eks. her, fra gnome-graphics-0.20.spec:
> 
> if [ "$SMP" != "" ]; then
>   (make "MAKE=make -k -j $SMP"; exit 0)
>   make
> else
>   make
> fi


Det tumpede er endda, at det naesten altid kan betale sig at bruge -j 3 -
ihvertfald hvis man har en lille smule ram, og en ok CPU - kontekst
skiftene koster meget lidt, i forhold til det man kan vinde ved at 
parallelisere CPU brug og IO.

Oh well.

Mads

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Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               madsdyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx
When a single line of script in Linux can do things that'd keep you 
pointing-and-clicking forever in Windows, you have great motivation to learn 
that line of script.
                                        - Chris Worth on The Microsoft Matrix