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Compile *nix programs faster multi-core Macs
Authored by: boredzo on May 25, '07 08:16:51AM

-j works even better on the install step. Set it to a really high number, and make will just spawn process after process after process without waiting for the process to end. You're probably not going to save much time, since the bottleneck is disk reads and writes, but it saves a little bit and it's fun to watch the terminal get slammed with all those copy commands. ☺

One way to help that would be to build the program on a RAM disk, and install it from there.



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