On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 04:40:27PM +0200, Daniel Eggert wrote:

> As far as i know, it only makes sense (i.e. help speed) on 
> multi-processor machines. n = number of processors.

On powerful machines it can be used too. Compilations
don't always eat up all CPU power available there,
so -j helps. And we also got the Intel HyperThreading
now : one cpu, appears as two (at least in the bios).

I wonder how such CPU would appear under NetBSD.
Anyone got a dmesg ? ;-)

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Gilbert Fernandes