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On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:09:35AM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:

> Would all this work for 'make index' for the ports also? Or is this more =
=20
> io bound?
> I can't test this myself, because my laptop is to slow for making these =
=20
> tests any fun.

Based on my tests, 'make index' is only faster with -j on smp machines
(the default is -j2, which only penalizes UP by a second or two, but
nearly halves the build time on an smp machine).

Kris

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