[From Sam]
> BTW, when setting up parallel make, I usually use # cpus + 1, so a compile is
> running while disk access is going for another.
[From Ryan]
My experience is that this works well on Linux, but is actually slower on
PowerPC Mac OS X...not sure if that's an architecture issue or a scheduler
issue, though, and haven't tried it on Intel Mac OS X.
--- a/build-scripts/fatbuild.sh Fri Apr 28 05:43:58 2006 +0000
+++ b/build-scripts/fatbuild.sh Fri Apr 28 05:46:07 2006 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
# Number of CPUs (for make -j)
NCPU=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`
-NJOB=`expr $NCPU + 1`
+NJOB=$NCPU
+#NJOB=`expr $NCPU + 1`
# Generic, cross-platform CFLAGS you always want go here.
CFLAGS="-O3 -g -pipe"