Re: [Boost-users] Building boost faster: /MP

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building boost faster: /MP
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-15 15:10:51

Robert Dailey wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm sure most of you are aware of the /MP flag introduced in MSVC9. I know
> this flag works fine when set through Visual Studio 9, however, I'm not sure
> if it works when calling cl.exe directly. Since it's just a compiler flag I
> imagine it does. It would be great to see support for this flag in CMake
> and/or bjam to help build boost faster when using this particular compiler.
> Any thoughts on this?

If this is a compiler flag, then can you try full build with 

        cxxflags=-MP

and then without and report the timings? If this is a magic way to make
builds faster, it can be enabled by default.

- Volodya