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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How stable is today's snapshots
From:       "Dirk A . Mueller" <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-10 23:23:59
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> > never do parallel builts on a one-processor machine, as the cpu gets slowed
> > down considerably because your 2nd level cache is not big enough for such
> > things ;-)
> Well, sometimes it helps if IO is the bottleneck.

But only because the actual compilation gets slower because the memory
structures often accessed by the compiler don't fit any more into the cpu
caches. 


Dirk

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