Bang for the Buck, comparing Celerons to Xeons (and PIIIs?)

[David Welton]

On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 02:34:30AM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote:

> I don't understand your numbers above, I'm watching my Xeons compile
> right now and it shows consisten numbers, with real time being very
> close to the combination of user time and sys time.

Are you both doing the same make -j N ?  I think N in one case that
was posted was 4, whereas I'm not sure there was even a -j on the
initial post!

Make -j N defines how many concurrent processes may be running, which
is obviously a number you can bump up if you are doing SMP.

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