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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@y.jdyson.com>
Cc: diep@xs4all.nl (Vincent Diepeveen),
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org (gcc@gcc.gnu.org List)
Subject: Re: gcc and compiling speed
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 05:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871xodqgjx.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403010500.i2150gBA080486@y.jdyson.com.> (John S. Dyson's message of "Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:00:42 -0500 (EST)")

"John S. Dyson" <toor@y.jdyson.com> writes:

>> 
>> btw At multiprocessor BSD machines, does gcc get run using all processors
>> there instead of running all threads at 1 processor? If not, i know
>> something to speed you up quite some...
>> 
> FreeBSD has a couple of multi-threading libs, and at least one
> of them allows for multi-cpu threading.  Frankly, I don't keep
> up with the official release versions, but I often use the
> multi-cpu threading libs.

GCC itself is single threaded, but Make has the wonderful -j option
which lets you parallelize entire builds.

zw

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-01  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-01  4:23 Vincent Diepeveen
2004-03-01  5:00 ` John S. Dyson
2004-03-01  5:31   ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-01  0:43 Andrew Pinski
2004-03-01  2:58 ` Theo de Raadt
2004-03-01  3:07   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-03-01  3:46     ` Theo de Raadt
2004-03-01  3:55       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-03-01  3:59         ` Theo de Raadt
2004-03-01  4:15           ` Daniel Berlin
2004-03-14 22:15             ` Gerald Pfeifer
2004-03-01  6:00           ` Andreas Jaeger
2004-03-01 19:40             ` Peter Galbavy
2004-03-01 19:51               ` Andreas Jaeger
2004-03-01 20:05                 ` Peter Galbavy
2004-03-01 20:15                   ` William Ahern
2004-03-01  3:10   ` Zack Weinberg
2004-03-01  3:49     ` Theo de Raadt
2004-03-01  4:00       ` Eric Christopher
2004-03-01  4:05         ` Theo de Raadt
2004-03-01  4:11           ` Eric Christopher
2004-03-01  4:00       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-03-01  4:01       ` Zack Weinberg
     [not found]         ` <20040301071403.GA8953@tetto.gentiane.org>
2004-03-01  7:27           ` Zack Weinberg
2004-03-01  8:09   ` Steven Bosscher

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