| Yeah, I was thinking about this after I sent the last email, you
| could have a -j flag equivalent, which would be especially useful
| on SMP machines in the future.

  You'll get a big win on UP as well.  There often are phases in the  
startup that are temporarily disk-bound (clean up /tmp) or network  
bound (start sendmail), or CPU bound.  If you can launch a few of  
these in parallell, you'll get much better resource usage and faster  
boot times.

	-Fred


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       Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez@apple.com
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