Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available
From: Rob Stewart (rob.stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-08 16:57:02

On April 8, 2015 9:29:36 AM EDT, "Paul A. Bristow" <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> Would the uber-naïve heuristic -jone_less_than_max_cores work OK-ish
> (for a desktop machine)?

For a build machine, a good rule of thumb is to use N+1 to account for I/O wait. If you assume a desktop on which a user wants to do other work, then you to back off by one or two. (All of this assumes sufficient memory.)

Which to target with the defaults?

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Rob

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