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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Specific MAKEOPTS for one package
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:19:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180928041951.GB23885@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180925132550.GA10424@ikki.ethgen.ch>

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 02:25:50PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have set MAKEOPTS="-j3" in my make.conf.

  I assume you have 2 cores on your cpu and you're adding 1 as per the
ancient rule.  That may not be the best option anyways.  See
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2013/01/14/makeopts-jcore-1-is-not-the-best-optimization/
The author of the blog post ran multiple tests, and concluded that
setting MAKEOPTS -j to the actual number of cores is slightly faster.
Years ago, the gcc compiler was less efficient, and adding 1 to -j did
improve compilation speed.  That is apparently not the case today.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-28  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-25 13:25 [gentoo-user] Specific MAKEOPTS for one package Klaus Ethgen
2018-09-25 13:31 ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-09-25 13:34 ` Dale
2018-09-25 14:00 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-09-25 14:05   ` Klaus Ethgen
2018-09-26 13:57     ` james
2018-09-28  4:19 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2018-10-01 11:34   ` Klaus Ethgen
2018-10-01 14:45     ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-10-01 19:48     ` Walter Dnes

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