From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-21 08:43:33
Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
> At 03:23 PM 9/20/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
> >
> >For those people running the Boost regression tests, I suggest you try
> >invoking bjam with -jN to do some of the build jobs in parallel. Even
> >on uniprocessor systems it seems to help quite a bit to compile/link
> >while some other process is waiting for the disk, and on
> >multiprocessors I imagine it would be even better. I am using -j4 on
> >my uniprocessor laptop now, for example.
>
> I tried -jN a while ago when I got a hyperthreading CPU, and it did
> seem to improve build speeds as long as GCC wasn't one of the
> compilers.
>
> I didn't spend a lot of time diagnosing the problem with GCC, but what
> seemed to have been happening was that GCC used so much memory that
> running multiple compiles chewed up all the machine's RAM and
> more. That kills file caching, which in turn kills performance.
>
> Did you try with GCC?
Yep, but I wasn't measuring. It just seemed faster.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com