April 12, 2007
(This post is from my old, old, super old site. My views have changed over the years, hopefully my writing has improved, and there is now more than a handful of folks reading my site. Enjoy.)
It keeps on getten' asked, so here it is:
$ time make -j8
real 0m41.105s
user 1m55.404s
sys 1m49.693s
But the surprising bit is:
$ time make -j6
real 0m37.042s
user 1m52.107s
sys 1m41.501s
This was with subversion 1.3 after a minor header tweak.