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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:45:18 +0200
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From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] `mk` (from Plan9 ports) efficiency related issue
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 18:02, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> something else to try if you're on a multiprocessor system: set $NPROC
> to a value > 1 and see how this affects the runtime in the 14-second
> case. your dependency tree may be very deep, but parallelizable.

    I've tried that, either NPROC=1 or NPROC=8 doesn't affect the
behaviour. (I'm on a Core2 Duo processor.)