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

[Griffin McKinney]

As Alan DuBoff was saying:
> George Bonser wrote:
> 
> > You are seeing the benefit of SMP. By specifying -j4 I am able to use both
> > processors.
> 
> This has been very educational for me, since you really can't specify that
> type of parameter on Solaris. 

Yes you can, as it's a make option and not a OS option. As with Solaris, it 
doesn't matter how many processors you have, you can -j yourself until your 
system dies.

Don't get me wrong, Solaris' SMP is absolutely awesome. Until you've seen an
E6k with a load average of 400+, and still decent responsiveness, you've never 
seen performance. ;> 

But -j is a make option, telling make how many concurrant jobs to run. The OS
takes care of the sequencing, if it can. 

-Kysh

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