On Monday 29 March 2010, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> So, at work I'm setting up a Gentoo system on an HP with an i7
> processor (with eight virtual cores). I passed in -j7 as a make
> option, and it built the whole bloody kernel, modules and everything,
> in five minutes. Sweetness.
Five? Wow...I seem to remember Linus T. bragging back in the day that
his four processor system (this was when multi-CPU systems, especially
> 2, were especially rare) only took 2.5 minutes. Must be seriously
I/O bound.
Can I find a citation for that? No...just going off memory.
j
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