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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:01:59
Message-Id: 200611061359.33291.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4 by Jack Lloyd
1 On Monday 06 November 2006 13:49, Jack Lloyd wrote:
2 > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:05:31PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
3 > > lets ask the other way round. Why should it speed up anything to have
4 > > X>number of cores? Instead of a single thread per core, compiling
5 > > happily, you have two or more competing for one core and regularly kick
6 > > out each others data from the cache.
7 >
8 > To account for I/O wait states
9
10 and how often does something wait for io and how often does some data is
11 purged from the cache, because the other make instance is activated?
12
13 When I switched from j2 to j1, compiling did not take any longer - but the box
14 way much more usable.
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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4 Jack Lloyd <lloyd@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4 Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>