Re: single-threading targets although make was invoked with -jX ?

[Per Jessen]

Eric Melski wrote:

> Oops, should have had my coffee before responding. :)  I see now the
> synchronization occurs outside the invocation of the process, so the
> process won't be able to acquire any other resources, because it won't
> actually have started.
> 
> I suppose if you're looking at a really, really massively parallel
> system you might have concerns with swamping the process table with
> effectively idle processes though.

It is or could be more of a problem on standard multi-cores with e.g. 4
or 8 execution units.  Even just one process tied up unnecessarily will
reduce the overall utilization. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich