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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building boost faster: /MP
From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-15 23:00:06

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Pete Bartlett<pete_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> My main build machine is high-spec. I routinely use bjam -j N, but find that
> in the code that uses Boost most intensively, CPU is no longer the main
> determinant of compile time. Some source files take ~1GB of memory to
> compile - so trying to do several such files in parallel causes the meager
> 3GB or so of memory to be exhausted with all the problems that that entails.
> My /next/ build machine is not going to be constrained by the (Windows?)
> 32bit 4GB memory barrier!

At the risk of going off-topic, you can still use >4GB on a 32-bit
Windows machine.  The only catch is a single process can't use more
than 2GB (or 3GB with some special work).

-- 
Cory Nelson
http://int64.org