Re: Building Debian

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Marek Mosiewicz wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> I have just two core machine, so I can not check it. But what I think
> GNU Make still not spawns only one process when compiling code.
> 
> In fact from my understanding of GCC there is no any objections to
> compile files in parallel. Compiler parses header files independently
> for each compilation unit so there is no any problem to spawn compiler
> on each core.
> 
> So building Debian on AMD Threadripper could be in theory 128 times
> faster.

Sure.

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7f32-benchmarks-and-review/3/

shows the results of different processors on the task of
building a linux kernel.

make's parallelism can be changed with -j


-dsr-