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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, smp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Some SMP timing tests. 
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> > The bottleneck is the SUBDIR target which is not parallelized.
> > 
> > Try the patch and run `make -j<n> -I share/mk all' in /usr/src.
> > The patch split the SUBDIR variable into 4 variables SUBDIR1,
> > ... SUBDIR4 and runs 4 subdir targets simultaneously.
> 
> Oh *igitt*!  There has to be a better way than this, I think.  
> 
> What about having bsd.subdir.mk take an arbitrary ${SUBDIR} and
> just divide it up internally?

Unfortunately, this won't work generically because of dependencies.  Ie;
we *must* build/install the include files before doing other things.


Nate