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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: EAPI-2 support
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Thomas R=C3=B6sner <Thomas.Roesner@digital-trauma.de> posted
491247F3.1090309@digital-trauma.de, excerpted below, on Thu, 06 Nov 2008
02:27:15 +0100:
> But with rotating storage, don't you (very much) only want one I/O-boun=
d
> job at a time?
Invalid assumption(s). This is more a user list topic or personal wiki/
google research project, but there are at least four levels at which that=
=20
is a likely invalid assumption on a well configured Gentoo Linux=20
installation on modern hardware, particularly one where the user is not=20
setting MAKEOPTS=3D1, thus indicating that he has and wants to use=20
sufficient resources for parallel jobs in the first place.
If you like, mail me offlist and we can continue the discussion, as it=20
really is off topic for the gentoo-dev list.
--=20
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