On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:08:20 +0200 Alexander Mieland
<dma147@mieland-programming.de> wrote:
| By the way, as long as we dont have a second machine with smp-support,
| it should be possibly to get reasonably accurate results if we
| multiply the number of cpus and then divide through a factor like 1.2.
| You can test it, it should be reasonably accurate.

Sadly, not the case. See, ./configure doesn't parallelise *at all*, and
some packages either override make to not run in parallel (because the
ebuild maintainer is too lazy to fix buggy upstream makefiles) or
because the source files have lots of dependencies. So, it depends
pretty much entirely upon the package as to how SMP affects it.

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