On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Tim Murphy <tnmur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> No, I understand better than you think as I do huge parallel builds every day.
>
> The shell wrapper buffers the recipe output and then grabs a semaphore
> before writing the output to it's stdout..  if another recipe has
> completed and is in the process of outputting to the stdout then it
> has to wait a few microseconds.

The use of semaphore may impair performance.



-- 
Chiheng Xu
Wuhan,China

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