Re: Script for compiling more quietly

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org> writes:

>  I also replaced your "nproc" by "expr $(nproc) / 2 + 1", IME using
> nproc makes the computer unuseable, and is not much faster than
> nproc/2+1.

It depends on whether you have Hypertheading, I guess -- I don't (on
this laptop), so -j`nproc` is twice as fast as nproc / 2.

Absurdly enough, nproc doesn't have an option for "just say how many
cores there are, OK?"  But I guess one could parse /proc/cpuinfo to try
to figure that out.

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