Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Intel Mac GNU Radio Install Update Soon

[Johnathan Corgan]

Thomas Schmid wrote:

> Also, increasing to -j3 or -j4 might even increase the compile
> performance since some of the make processes might be doing some
> intensive IO work, thus the CPUs are free for compiling. I only
> recently learnt that (thank you, Greg)...

I've read that the thumb rule (wish I had a cite but don't remember) is
to use the number of CPUs (or CPU cores) available + 1.  This keeps all
the CPUs busy plus has an extra process to fill in cycles when there are
I/O stalls.

-Johnathan