On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:53:07 -0700 "Enlightenment SVN"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Log:
> packaging/slackware:
>   
>   - eeze mount doesn't fit well anymore with Slackware current and
> udisks backend seems to work pretty well now, so enable it by default.
>   - eyesight doesn't build anymore without poppler and mupdf needs
> extra dependency, so disable it for now.
>   - makes thing compile fater with make -j5.

Um, is this for general use, or specific to your build machine?  -j5
might actually slow things down for people with less than 4 cores.
It's generally better to actually detect the number of cores.

Make's -j option can also be memory bound, but in my experience EFL
does not have that problem.  In another unrelated project, using the
number of free GB instead of the number of cores plus one for the -j
option is better, as otherwise it slows down a lot when it starts
thrashing swap.

On the other hand, last time I experimented with make -j on EFL, it did
not make any measurable difference beyond 2 cores and 2GB.  Make -j3 to
make -j12 ran at about the same speeds.  Everything is so small it
barely gets a chance to do much good before it's already finished with
any one source file, plus the bulk of the time is spent doing non make
things.

-- 
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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.

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