Code review comment for lp:~dandrader/mir/cross-compile-parallel
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| Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader) wrote | # |
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> Good idea but:
> NUM_JOBS=$(( `grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo` + 1 ))
>
> Why the "+ 1"?
To squeeze more juice out of the CPU, helping ensure it's 100% busy building the code. :)
In my experience a CPU can handle more build threads than its number of cores without hampering the execution speed of the individual threads.